Import Mesa/2 to OpenOffice
Vitus Jensen
Are there solutions to read files created by Mesa/2 from OpenOffice?
Other than to start Mesa/2 and export them to some widely used format? My
OS/2 machine won't start anymore (hardware) but I could use some data from
old files.
I've seen there is a Mesa for Mac OS/X, does it read .m2 files?
Bye,
Vitus
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Andreas Kohl
Vitus Jensen schrieb:
> Hej!
>
> Are there solutions to read files created by Mesa/2 from OpenOffice?
No. OpenOffice has no import filters. Same problem here with Excel,
Quattro Pro and Lotus 1-2-3 files.
> Other than to start Mesa/2 and export them to some widely used format?
> My OS/2 machine won't start anymore (hardware) but I could use some data
> from old files.
One solution could be to setup an OS/2 virtual machine with Mesa inside,
> I've seen there is a Mesa for Mac OS/X, does it read .m2 files?
There is a trial version to check:
<http://homepage.mac.com/Mesa3/Mesa.dmg>
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Bart
code from Sundial?
Bart
Toronto
Steven Levine
<vi...@alter-schwede.de> wrote:
Hi,
> I've seen there is a Mesa for Mac OS/X, does it read .m2 files?
Probably not, athough Sundial's Mesa is derived from Mesa for the
Next.
Steven
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Steven Levine
<gen-underscore-mgr@cbm-dot-on-.-ca> wrote:
Hi,
> Is the use of the name "Mesa" a stange coincidence, or did these guys license
> code from Sundial?
You have it backwards. :-)
Vitus Jensen
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Andreas Kohl wrote:
> Vitus Jensen schrieb:
>>
>> Are there solutions to read files created by Mesa/2 from OpenOffice?
>
> No. OpenOffice has no import filters. Same problem here with Excel, Quattro
> Pro and Lotus 1-2-3 files.
:-(
>> Other than to start Mesa/2 and export them to some widely used format? My
>> OS/2 machine won't start anymore (hardware) but I could use some data from
>> old files.
>
> One solution could be to setup an OS/2 virtual machine with Mesa inside,
Which is a major task by itself as I read. But there are free virtual
machines and I own a key for vmware workstation so I may feel adventurous
some day and try it.
>> I've seen there is a Mesa for Mac OS/X, does it read .m2 files?
>
> There is a trial version to check:
> <http://homepage.mac.com/Mesa3/Mesa.dmg>
So the next step is to find someone with a mac...
Thanks everybody for your help!
Trevor Hemsley
<vi...@alter-schwede.de> wrote:
> I own a key for vmware workstation so I may feel adventurous
> some day and try it.
VMWare will not run OS/2. Use VirtualBox or perhaps Parallels.
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John Varela
wrote:
> One solution could be to setup an OS/2 virtual machine with Mesa inside,
I am running eCS (check the headers of this article) on a Mac using
Parallels Desktop 4.0. It's the only VM for Mac that claims to run
OS/2 and does it pretty well, and is reasonably easy to set up.
The data he wants to access could be printed from the VM, but if the
files are too large for that, or binary, there's the problem that
there's no easy way to transfer files from this VM to Mac OS. The
files could probably be transferred by copying to a CD, and I do
have RSJ CD-Writer installed, but I haven't tried using it so don't
know if it can be made to work.
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Andreas Kohl
> VMWare will not run OS/2. Use VirtualBox or perhaps Parallels.
The latest VMware Workstation Version 7 supports OS/2 guests. There are
no guest extensions or additions anyway. VGA should be enough to convert
some spreadsheet documents.
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Andreas
piesse
>
> No. OpenOffice has no import filters. Same problem here with Excel,
> Quattro Pro and Lotus 1-2-3 files.
>
Actually excel xls files are loaded just fine, and so are lotus wk1, wks
and .123 files
piersante
Peter Wadsack
:> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:02:43 UTC, Andreas Kohl <ak0...@gmail.com>
:> wrote:
:>
:> > One solution could be to setup an OS/2 virtual machine with Mesa
inside,
:>
:> I am running eCS (check the headers of this article) on a Mac using
:> Parallels Desktop 4.0. It's the only VM for Mac that claims to run
:> OS/2 and does it pretty well, and is reasonably easy to set up.
:>
This is from a Warp VM on Parallels 2.5, which won't work when I move from
Leopard to Snow Leopard. So I'm moving to VirtualBox, now at 3.1, which
will work under SL.
:> The data he wants to access could be printed from the VM, but if the
:> files are too large for that, or binary, there's the problem that
:> there's no easy way to transfer files from this VM to Mac OS.
I have pmftp set up to connect the Warp VM guest to the host Mac, and
transfer files all the time. Several 500MB zip files just yesterday, as
part of moving from Parallels to VirtualBox.
Peter
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Vitus Jensen
My key covers workstation 6 and I don't intend to update it. But
VirtualBox is in the gentoo repository so I will try that one.
If I can get access to the disk (it's SCSI and my laptop doesn't do it) I
will take partition dumps and restore them into the VM. The usual
problems about mapping and sizes apply but if I get this right the VM will
run a nice application mix. Including the productivity apps[1] from OS/2
2.0 :-)
Vitus
[1] I do have files from that spreadsheet, too
Kelbel
Hi Piersante
What you state is interesting. I gave up OpenOffice because import/load
of .sdw files, created with StarOffice 5.1, was a no-go
K.
David T. Johnson
Andreas Kohl
> Actually excel xls files are loaded just fine, and so are lotus wk1, wks
> and .123 files
Wow, it really works with my old Excel 3.0 files in OO V3.1.1 that's
nowhere documented. File Open dialogue only mentions Excel V 4.x. But it
fails with old MS Word 1.1 files, which I have to convert to rtf before.
Andreas
Mark Dodel
<not.r...@spam.not> wrote:
-> On 16 Dec 2009 20:19:02 GMT, John Varela wrote:
->
-> :> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:02:43 UTC, Andreas Kohl <ak0...@gmail.com>
-> :> wrote:
-> :>
-> :> > One solution could be to setup an OS/2 virtual machine with Mesa
-> inside,
-> :>
-> :> I am running eCS (check the headers of this article) on a Mac using
-> :> Parallels Desktop 4.0. It's the only VM for Mac that claims to run
-> :> OS/2 and does it pretty well, and is reasonably easy to set up.
-> :>
->
-> This is from a Warp VM on Parallels 2.5, which won't work when I move from
-> Leopard to Snow Leopard. So I'm moving to VirtualBox, now at 3.1, which
-> will work under SL.
->
->
-> :> The data he wants to access could be printed from the VM, but if the
-> :> files are too large for that, or binary, there's the problem that
-> :> there's no easy way to transfer files from this VM to Mac OS.
->
-> I have pmftp set up to connect the Warp VM guest to the host Mac, and
-> transfer files all the time. Several 500MB zip files just yesterday, as
-> part of moving from Parallels to VirtualBox.
->
-> Peter
Is there a way to convert a Parallels VM to a VirtualBox VM easily? I
have had Snow Leopard sitting here for a couple months waiting for the
time to install it on my kids' Macbook Pros. My daughter has hardly
used Parallels on hers since I installed it a couple years ago, but my
son plays Trials of Battle under an eCS VM still but that doesn't
justify paying for yet another parallels upgrade.
Mark
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Peter Wadsack
:> Is there a way to convert a Parallels VM to a VirtualBox VM easily?
VirtualBox 3.1 will work directly with Parallels *.hdd files, for versions
of Parallels prior to 3.0. However, the config.sys on the hdd will contain
Parallels drivers, not VirtualBox drivers. So Warp will boot, but be
unhappy until the drivers are changed.
After seeing that it worked, I nevertheless opted for a clean install on a
VirtualBox *.vdi file, for a maintenance partition, and then plan to move
the rest of the files over via zip; each Warp partition zipped to less than
2GB in my case.
Kelbel
>
> OpenOffice will not load .sdw or .sdc files created by StarOffice 5.1
> but you can still import them into OpenOffice by first saving the
> .sdw/.sdc files in .doc/.xls formats with StarOffice and then they will
> load in OpenOffice.
>
>
OK David. Thks for the tip
K.
Olafur Gunnlaugsson
> Hi,
>
> Vitus Jensen schrieb:
>> Hej!
>>
>> Are there solutions to read files created by Mesa/2 from OpenOffice?
>
> No. OpenOffice has no import filters. Same problem here with Excel,
> Quattro Pro and Lotus 1-2-3 files.
It will open excel files, not all correctly though
IBM�s version of OpenOffice is called Lotus Symphony and it has import
filters, not for mesa sadly but for a host of other formatst including
Lotus Smartsuite, that program works on windows, mac and linux and I
often use it as a converter since its default file format are oo files.
d9gz9ff
> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:30:32 UTC, Bart
> <gen-underscore-mgr@cbm-dot-on-.-ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Is the use of the name "Mesa" a stange coincidence, or did these
> > guys license code from Sundial?
>
> You have it backwards. :-)
>
> Steven
Nope, boy, you have it backwards. Bark like a dog.
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