[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49510] after an xlswrite the spreadsheet is corrupted

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #13, bug #49510 (project octave):

Steve,

(yeah firewalls etc. Our IT dept. is also strict but they'll always help us
when we need stuff from the web we cannot d/ld ourselves.)

I see you run Octave on Windows. How did you install Octave then? the windows
package *is* included in the Windows installer.
"pkg load windows"
should do the trick.

Or could you download windows-1.2.4.tar.gz at home to a thumb drive and then
install it at work from there? or email it to your work email?
AFAIK we rarely put up complete packages etc. here, to eliminate chances of
outdated cruft being picked up later on.

As to not being able to read the .xls file, is that because you cannot
download & install Java support libs? ("install" means merely copying a java
.jar file)
If you can, I'd try the OpenXLS interface first - the fastest and it's just
one file: see http://openxls.sf.net (yep, sourceforge)
Apache POI is superior but needs 3 (for .xls) + another 2 (for .xlsx) .jar
files. See http://poi.apache.org/download.html

If you put all the .jar files in one place, simply "load" them using:
chk_spreadsheet_support ('/full/path/to/subdir/with/jar/libraries', 2)
(line wrap!)
and it should work. chk_spreadsheet_support is in the io package.

In the mean time I'll search further for how to cope with the "illegal"
character in XML.


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