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Failing xls-File

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Sven Schreiber

Wednesday, 6 November 2019 Wed, 6 Nov '19

10:48 a.m.

Hi, the attached spreadsheet file (not a secret, from public replication data) produces an error like "failed to get workbook info" when trying to import into gretl. cheers sven

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returnsdata.xls (application/vnd.ms-excel — 143.9 KB)

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Sven Schreiber

Wednesday, 6 November Wed, 6 Nov

10:51 a.m.

Am 06.11.2019 um 16:48 schrieb Sven Schreiber:

the attached spreadsheet file (not a secret, from public replication data) produces an error like "failed to get workbook info" when trying to import into gretl.

Apparently it seems to be an Excel-4-format file? When I save it in a recent xlsx format it works without a hiccup. -s

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Allin Cottrell

3:31 p.m.

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:

Am 06.11.2019 um 16:48 schrieb Sven Schreiber: > > the attached spreadsheet file (not a secret, from public replication > data) produces an error like "failed to get workbook info" when trying > to import into gretl. Apparently it seems to be an Excel-4-format file? When I save it in a recent xlsx format it works without a hiccup.

OK. When you attempt to open the original returnsdata.xls in gretl, the following is shown on stderr: "This file is not an 'OLE' file -- it may be too old for gretl to read" Maybe that should be shown in the GUI. Anyway, apparently the file format is an archaic XLS variant. Allin

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