Hmm, it looks like MS Works and Lotus 123 share a Spreadsheet file type "WKS".
The website I borrowed this file from says it is "Lotus 123 Compatible". Whereas Wikipedia says that Work's format is Proprietary.
Further scrutiny suggests that wks is used by older versions of Lotus 123 and as such is unlikely to be a priority for normalisation.
I will search on for MS works files to play with.
Ian
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OK, I found a wks file identified as MS Works. It was not identified as 'Lotus' by OO and had some character set trouble when opened.
When run through Xena it was identified and 'Normalised' as a Binary.
Attatching sample file.
File Added: TESTAWKS.WKS
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OK, I found a wks file identified as MS Works. It was not identified as 'Lotus' by OO and had some character set trouble when opened.
When run through Xena it was identified and 'Normalised' as a Binary.
Attatching sample file.
File Added: TESTAWKS.WKS
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Hmm, it looks like MS Works and Lotus 123 share a Spreadsheet file type "WKS".
The website I borrowed this file from says it is "Lotus 123 Compatible". Whereas Wikipedia says that Work's format is Proprietary.
Further scrutiny suggests that wks is used by older versions of Lotus 123 and as such is unlikely to be a priority for normalisation.
I will search on for MS works files to play with.
Ian
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One more comment - While Xena does not correctly identify these, Open Office does recognise them as Lotus files and opens the file.
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OK, I found a wks file identified as MS Works. It was not identified as 'Lotus' by OO and had some character set trouble when opened.
When run through Xena it was identified and 'Normalised' as a Binary.
Attatching sample file.
File Added: TESTAWKS.WKS
Logged In: YES
user_id=2125694
Originator: YES
OK, I found a wks file identified as MS Works. It was not identified as 'Lotus' by OO and had some character set trouble when opened.
When run through Xena it was identified and 'Normalised' as a Binary.
Attatching sample file.
File Added: TESTAWKS.WKS
Are these files handled by the current OOo?
seems to be.
Tested in Open Office - OOO330m18 (build 9556):
I can open a test WKS file OK.
Tested in Xena stable (v5.0.0):
Xena identifies the file as a Windows Cursor Image and it fails normalisation with the following error:
org.im4java.core.CommandException
Trace:
au.gov.naa.digipres.xena.kernel.normalise.NormaliserManager.parse(NormaliserManager.java:826)
au.gov.naa.digipres.xena.kernel.normalise.NormaliserManager.normalise(NormaliserManager.java:1005)
au.gov.naa.digipres.xena.core.Xena.normalise(Xena.java:599)
au.gov.naa.digipres.xena.core.Xena.normalise(Xena.java:543)
au.gov.naa.digipres.xena.litegui.NormalisationThread.normaliseFile(NormalisationThread.java:328)
au.gov.naa.digipres.xena.litegui.NormalisationThread.normaliseStandard(NormalisationThread.java:250)
au.gov.naa.digipres.xena.litegui.NormalisationThread.run(NormalisationThread.java:191)
I should note that Xena and OO.org do not support Lotus Suite file formats (Wordpro or 123 spreadsheets).