excel viewer like antiexcel

[Troy Piggins]

Just been looking at antiword for viewing .doc files from within mutt -
this one seems quite popular, and worked ok for some of the test files I
tried it on.
Got to thinking there must be an antiexcel too - googled it and there
was on sourceforge. Downloaded it - uses perl. Got one of the modules
it required - Spreadsheet::ParseExcel , but couldn't find the other -
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtUnicode and don't know where to get it from.
I am not sure if FmtUnicode function is included with
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module.
Anyway, when I run './antiexcel example.xls' to test, I get this error :

Usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] template
I cant create temporary file

I was wondering how to :
1. fix this (I have no idea about perl)
2. get the other module/function/whatever it is, if that fixes it
3. are there any other/better excel viewers for linux console?

TIA
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[Devdas Bhagat]

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:43:26 GMT, Troy Piggins <troy@piggo.com> poured
into the usenet group comp.unix.admin:

<crossposts trimmed and followups set>

> Just been looking at antiword for viewing .doc files from within mutt -
> this one seems quite popular, and worked ok for some of the test files I
> tried it on.
> Got to thinking there must be an antiexcel too - googled it and there
> was on sourceforge. Downloaded it - uses perl. Got one of the modules
> it required - Spreadsheet::ParseExcel , but couldn't find the other -
> Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtUnicode and don't know where to get it from.
> I am not sure if FmtUnicode function is included with
> Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module

If you need to install a Perl module, use the excellent CPAN module for that.

As root:
#perl -MCPAN -eshell
cpan> install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel

Since you are a newbie, perldoc -q 'my own module' and perldoc CPAN will be
your friends.
Oh, and perldoc perl and then walk through the first few of those documents.

Devdas Bhagat

[Troy Piggins]

* Devdas Bhagat <devdas@users.sourceforge.net> [aus.computers.linux]:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:43:26 GMT, Troy Piggins <troy@piggo.com> poured
> into the usenet group comp.unix.admin:
>
><crossposts trimmed and followups set>
>

>> Just been looking at antiword for viewing .doc files from within mutt -
>> this one seems quite popular, and worked ok for some of the test files I
>> tried it on.
>> Got to thinking there must be an antiexcel too - googled it and there
>> was on sourceforge. Downloaded it - uses perl. Got one of the modules
>> it required - Spreadsheet::ParseExcel , but couldn't find the other -
>> Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtUnicode and don't know where to get it from.
>> I am not sure if FmtUnicode function is included with
>> Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module

>
> If you need to install a Perl module, use the excellent CPAN module for that.
>
> As root:
> #perl -MCPAN -eshell
> cpan> install Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
>
> Since you are a newbie, perldoc -q 'my own module' and perldoc CPAN will be
> your friends.
> Oh, and perldoc perl and then walk through the first few of those documents.
>
> Devdas Bhagat

Thanks Devdas, and sorry about the followup thing - I have just started
using slrn newsreader, and not used to it. Followups under control now.
I hope.
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