Decimating Excel files

[Stephen Eilert]

On Feb 5, 11:42 pm, "John Machin" <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 1:19 pm, gonzlobo <gonzl... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I tried to open the file with Kate, trust me, it's an Excel file.
>
> Who or what is Kate? In what sense is trying to open it any evidence
> that it's an Excel file? Did you *succeed* in opening the file "with
> Kate"?

In the sense that Kate is not a girl, but a text editor. I assume he
opened the file and got only "gibberish", instead of text, CSV, or
whatever.


Stephen