Excel file format

[Alex Martelli]

"Pim van der Eijk" <pvdeijk at my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Excel file format is documented on the Microsoft MSDN site,  in the past

I can't find it there (do you have an exact URL...? I think I'm
pretty good at the specific task of searching MSDN, but sometimes
its many gigabytes manage to throw me...!-), but here are
a few URL's that do give relevant info:

http://www.cubic.org/source/archive/fileform/misc/excel.txt
http://homepage.tinet.ie/~jmcnamara/perl/PerlExcelFaq.html
http://buckaru.rain.com/~mikez/Info/xls.txt
http://arturo.directmail.org/filters/archive/xls2xml-1.0.0.tar.gz


Alex