[Lazarus] Astronomy Software

[Marc Santhoff]

Am Montag, den 16.11.2009, 00:37 +0100 schrieb Marc Santhoff:
> Am Sonntag, den 15.11.2009, 15:14 -0600 schrieb Phil Hess:
> > ----- "Matt Shaffer" <dazappa.matt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I understood his message to mean that he didn't want to use
> > > windows-only apps/code. I'm sure he'll port it to those systems, and
> > > if he doesn't, it's on sourceforge, so you could compile it yourself
> > > ;).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think a useful format for reports would be an image or an excel
> > > file, but working with excel files is never easy.
> > > 
> > 
> > Exactly. If there were an RTF equivalent for Excel files, that might be a good choice.
> 
> There is (has been) a format called DIF (data interchange format) and
> another one that i forgot about. In ancient times gnumeric and excel and
> others could read them both.
> 
> Maybe it's time for polishing up that old excel 4.0 and have a
> look ... ;)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Interchange_Format

I remembered, the other one was SYLK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYmbolic_LinK_(SYLK)


> HTH,
-- 
Marc Santhoff <M.Santhoff at web.de>