[ale] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

[Geoffrey Myers]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> +1 on csv.

+2

It's also going to be about as small as you can get it without compression.

> 
> I've worked with large surface models in the past and have had to send 
> the information (N,E,Z points) to various clients/contractors without 
> knowing exactly what software they used.
> 
> There's something to be said for a spreadsheet that opens an 8 meg text 
> file.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>> csv or some other pure text format. If the rows include a binary blob,
>> those get exported separately as <keyname>-<column_number>.<filetype>
>> and their location in the row filled with the <folder>/<new filename>.
>>
>> I also include a README with notes on what's going on as well as an
>> EXAMPLE that has column headers showing name and types.
>> Lastly is the <folder> with the binary blobs.
>>
>> The entire pile is a tgz for Linux or .zip for other.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Jim,
>>>
>>> If I want to send a client 200,000 rows of info and I don't know what
>>> software they have, what database format would you recommend?
>>>
>>> fyi: I really do send large files like that from time to time.
>>> Currently I send it as a Excel 2007 file (.xlsx) most of the time.
>>> Most of my clients can work with that.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
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