Re: Mapping Shared IFS folders to Mac

Well I confess at the time that I hadn't actually tested a spreadsheet file (only xml, csv and json) but I was thinking that an excel file was just xml under the covers - but of course it is a zipped package so yes that should work.

I'll test it as soon as I can get the danged mounted disk to refresh its file list.


Jon Paris

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On Oct 22, 2018, at 2:08 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 1:20 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks for the advice Jack - but I have enough editors in my life already and editing is not the objective.

I want to be able to ope the generated spreadsheets, csv, json, etc. files on the Mac.

I'm confused by your EBCDIC comment since the files aren't EBCDIC. They are (mostly) 819 or 1208. And come through perfectly on the NFS mount.

It would seem he simply guessed what is *usually* the most likely
scenario based on your description of seeing gibberish.

But it is indeed confusing if it's not working transparently. Genuine
spreadsheets (that is, Excel workbook files, not CSVs) should be, as
far as any operating system is concerned, binary. So there shouldn't
be any "code page" issue there. Either you can't open it at all (so no
opportunity to even see gibberish), or it opens and everything is
fine.

John Y.
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