[plug] DMA website funniness

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Thu May 22 18:14:16 WST 2003


On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 10:56, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Wed, 21 May 2003 18:54, Craig Foster wrote:
> > Nope, IE is munted too :(
> 
> >> From: Chris Caston [mailto:caston at arach.net.au]
> >> When I log in to the dealers area it does not come up with any of
> >> the product categories.
> 
> Unpack the Excel spreadsheet using Gnumeric and you'll see why. The, er, 
> gentleman maintaining their über-spreadsheet has saved it in Unicode 
> format, which has undoubtedly broken the VB hack which turns it into a 
> spreadsheet. BoC, it's Open Source that must have all of the 
> compatibility issues, according to Borg HQ. (-:
> 
> OOcalc 1.0.3 still reads the spreadsheet OK. I have some scripts kicking 
> around which turn the spreadsheet into a useable set of HTML pages 
> (better in some ways than the now-broken original, for example you get 
> to read the full descriptions).
> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
> 

Thanks. Interesting analysis (:

It appears to be back to normal now.

regards,

Chris 



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