conversion of data for filePro?

[Boaz Bezborodko]

> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:11:19 -0400 From: Fairlight 
> <fairlite at fairlite.com> Subject: Re: conversion of data for filePro? 
> To: filePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> 
> Message-ID: <20120921081119.GA3329 at iglou.com> Content-Type: 
> text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:06:47PM -0500, 
> Bob thus spoke:
>> Mark,
>>
>> Just go to Save As and select the csv file time.  Works like a champ
>> and ready for filepro import.
> It seems like it's a banner day for people forgetting that not all data
> originates locally.
>
> A third party would be supplying XLS files.  The systems running filePro
> won't have Excel - they're linux boxen.  The side running filePro won't
> have any control over what's sent.
>
> So...  We're looking at a need to do this unattended, on linux.
>
> We have a lead on one potential solution (perl's "xls2csv" project).  We
> wanted to see what other solutions might have been used to excellent
> success, however.
>
> mark->

I've used OpenOffice instead of Excel for XLS to CSV conversions and 
have been happy with it.  You should be able to do that in Linux.