From ipm@world.std.com Fri Jun 17 11:17:05 1994 X-VM-Summary-Format: "%n %*%a %-17.17F %-3.3m %2d %4l/%-5c %I\"%s\"\n" X-VM-Labels: nil X-VM-VHeader: ("Resent-" "From:" "Sender:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:" "Date:") nil X-VM-Bookmark: 4 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["859" "Tue" "14" "June" "1994" "16:52:29" "GMT" "Ian P. McCullough" "ipm@world.std.com" "" "20" "Spreadsheet formats" "^From:" nil nil "6" "1994061416:52:29" "Spreadsheet formats" (number " " mark " Ian P. McCullough Jun 14 20/859 " thread-indent "\"Spreadsheet formats\"\n") nil] nil) Newsgroups: sci.data.formats Path: saips.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!world!ipm Message-ID: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Lines: 20 From: ipm@world.std.com (Ian P McCullough) Subject: Spreadsheet formats Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 16:52:29 GMT hello I am looking for a universal spreadsheet exchange format that is up to par with the spreadsheets of the '90s I am aware of DTF but it is restrictive in that I need to include supplemental data thaat might be text as opposed to numeric fields and DTF does nothave this functionality to an acceptable degree. The application is this: I have a data logger and I am writing host software to offload the data and want to put it into spreadsheet files that can be read by multiple programs on multiple platforms. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Several of my thoughts include: Maybe GNU has something Maybe DTF has been updated in the last couple of years. I need something that I can include in my software. nothing heavily guarded or propriety holds much promise Anyway you get the idea... Thank you all in advance Ian ipm@world.std.com From giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov Wed Jun 22 18:23:21 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["586" "Wed" "22" "June" "1994" "15:48:26" "GMT" "Louis Giglio" "giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov" "<1994Jun22.114826@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov>" "19" "Re: Spreadsheet formats" "^From:" nil nil "6" "1994062215:48:26" "Spreadsheet formats" (number " " mark " Louis Giglio Jun 22 19/586 " thread-indent "\"Re: Spreadsheet formats\"\n") "<1994Jun22.180638.1@hotblk.aed.dsto.gov.au>"] nil) Path: saips.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov!giglio Newsgroups: sci.data.formats Organization: NASA/GSFC Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1994Jun22.114826@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <1994Jun22.180638.1@hotblk.aed.dsto.gov.au> Reply-To: giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Louis Giglio) NNTP-Posting-Host: betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Louis Giglio) Subject: Re: Spreadsheet formats Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 15:48:26 GMT alan@aed.dsto.gov.au writes: > Also I am not aware of DTF. Could someone enlighten me? I'm going to guess that Ian McCullough means DIF rather than DTF. DIF is an ASCII-based file format for exchanging simple numeric data. Lots of spreadsheets (and other programs) can read and write these files. For more info see: Beil, Donald H. The DIF file for users of Visicalc and other software. Reston, VA: Reston Pub. Co., 1983. But then again, maybe there really is a DTF spreadsheet format. In that case, disregard everything I've written. Louis Giglio giglio@betsy.gsfc.nasa.gov From wilhelmsen@austin.wireline.slb.com Thu Jun 23 10:21:42 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["923" "" "22" "June" "1994" "15:55:33" "GMT" "Don Wilhelmsen" "wilhelmsen@austin.wireline.slb.com" "" "27" "Re: Anyone know what SEGY is?" "^From:" nil nil "6" "1994062215:55:33" "Anyone know what SEGY is?" (number " " mark " Don Wilhelmsen Jun 22 27/923 " thread-indent "\"Re: Anyone know what SEGY is?\"\n") "<1994Jun21.171346.35925@Lehigh.EDU>"] nil) Path: saips.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news.sinet.slb.com!maggie.austin.wireline.slb.com!ascardin.austin.asc.slb.com!user Newsgroups: sci.data.formats Followup-To: sci.data.formats Organization: Schlumberger - Austin Systems Center Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <1994Jun21.171346.35925@Lehigh.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: ascardin.austin.slcs.slb.com From: wilhelmsen@austin.wireline.slb.com (Don Wilhelmsen) Subject: Re: Anyone know what SEGY is? Date: 22 Jun 1994 15:55:33 GMT SEG has a 1980 publication called "digital tape standards" that includes the official SEG-Y and other SEG formats. Of course, there are numerous rogue variations of SEG-Y that have been implemented over the years. SEG-Y is used most commonly by geophysical companies to record land and marine seismic surveys. You can contact SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) at PO Box 3098 Tulsa, OK 74101 ---------- In article <1994Jun21.171346.35925@Lehigh.EDU>, gunawara@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Asela Gunawardana) wrote: > > Does anyone have documentation for the SEGY format used in ocean > bottom sounding? > -- > Asela Gunawardana | poly: pref. [Gr] multiple, many > (gunawara@lafcol.lafayette,edu) | tics: n. pl. small blood sucking parasites > | politics: ? -- Don Wilhelmsen Schlumberger - Austin Systems Center wilhelmsen@austin.wireline.slb.com From woody@gergu2.tamu.edu Sat Jun 25 19:01:01 1994 Status: RO X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1290" "" "23" "June" "1994" "13:51:52" "GMT" "Woody Lee" "woody@gergu2.tamu.edu" "<2uc41p$au4@news.tamu.edu>" "41" "Re: Anyone know what SEGY is?" "^From:" nil nil "6" "1994062313:51:52" "Anyone know what SEGY is?" (number " " mark " Woody Lee Jun 23 41/1290 " thread-indent "\"Re: Anyone know what SEGY is?\"\n") ""] nil) Path: saips.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!gergu2.tamu.edu!woody Newsgroups: sci.data.formats Organization: Not very often... Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2uc41p$au4@news.tamu.edu> References: <1994Jun21.171346.35925@Lehigh.EDU> Reply-To: poster NNTP-Posting-Host: gergu2.tamu.edu From: woody@gergu2.tamu.edu (Woody Lee) Subject: Re: Anyone know what SEGY is? Date: 23 Jun 1994 13:51:52 GMT In article wilhelmsen@austin.wireline.slb.com (Don Wilhelmsen) writes: In article <1994Jun21.171346.35925@Lehigh.EDU>, gunawara@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Asela Gunawardana) wrote: > > Does anyone have documentation for the SEGY format used in ocean > bottom sounding? > -- > Asela Gunawardana | poly: pref. [Gr] multiple, many > (gunawara@lafcol.lafayette,edu) | tics: n. pl. small blood sucking parasites > | politics: ? The SEG-Y Format is basically made up of three parts. 3200 byte block ascii header 400 byte block binary header 8432 byte block binary data You can read a tape written in SEG-Y with the following series of commands: mt -f /dev/nrmt0h rewind dd if=/dev/nrmt0h bs=400 count=1 of=file8.2 mt -f /dev/nrmt0h rewind mt -f /dev/nrmt0h fsr 1 mt -f /dev/nrmt0h rewind mt -f /dev/nrmt0h fsr 2 dd if=/dev/nrmt0h bs=8432 of=file7.3 mt -f /dev/nrmt0h offline -- Woody Lee -=-=- woody@gergu2.tamu.edu -=-=- (409) 862-2321 GERG - Latex/A Data Office |"That's the whole problem with science. Texas A&M University | You've got a bunch of empiricists trying Department of Oceanography | to describe things of unimaginable wonder." College Station, TX 77845 | - Calvin (& Hobbes)