[Tfug] OOCalc opens OOWriter

[erich]

Hmm,
       Numeric data separated by tabs. That's a new one on me.
*.csv means they're comma separated. I don't know if there's
any spreadsheet S/W out there that could handle tabs. (other
than OO it seems.)

                                                                                      
Erich

Claude Rubinson wrote:

>I've got a tab separated dataset in plain text named, e.g., `foo'.  If
>I try to open the file by invoking `oocalc foo', OOo decides that
>since it's a plain text file, it should open the file in OOWriter.  To
>open the file in OOCalc, I need to rename the file `foo.csv'.  Does
>anyone know how to work around this brain-dead behavior (i.e., "use
>the app that I specified to open this file")?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Claude
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