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  • I can't remember exactly what it means, something like it failed to open the file, or failed to parse it as an OLE compound document. Try opening it first and passing in a FH (if that's possible).

    • Thank you, thank you! I'll try it immediately. (Wait, hmm, can I do that in DBI? Well, since I'm uploading my own copies of the modules, maybe I can kludge it...)

      Have slept on it and traced it down to an unpack statement that's deciding on a type of PPS (whatever a PPS is); the unpack yields a 5 on Linux and 0 on Win32. If this is the case, I wonder even if I hardwire it to 5 or something if the spreadsheet will parse correctly. Unpack is not portable?

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

    • Eek, I boiled down to a Spreadsheet::ParseExcel example and tried this; still didn't work. It comes down to some place where something tries to unpack the string "^E^A" as an unsigned char. I have a feeling that in Win32 it's trying to unpack "^E^A" or something. That said, I probably can't trust the entire module, because there's no telling how many non-portable unpack statements there might be.

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      J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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