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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/xml.scm | 8 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm index 51f3871218..30b5a25661 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm @@ -1280,10 +1280,12 @@ files. It is designed to be fast and to handle large input files.") ("automake" ,automake) ("libtool" ,libtool))) (home-page "http://libxls.sourceforge.net/") - (synopsis "Read Excel files") + (synopsis "Read binary (.xls) Excel spreadsheet files") (description - "libxls is a C library which can read Excel (xls) files since Excel 97 (the BIFF8 format). -libxls cannot write Excel files.") + "libxls is a C library to read .xls spreadsheet files in the binary OLE +BIFF8 format as created by Excel 97 and later versions. It cannot write them. + +This package also provides @command{xls2csv} to export Excel files to CSV.") (license license:bsd-2))) (define-public freexl |