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Supercalc to Excel conversion...
Name: Bob Date: November 20, 1998 at 07:22:41 Pacific
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Can any good friends out there help with any advice, utilities or routines that might enable me to convert Supercalc spreadsheets to Excel (Office 97) please. Many Thanks. Bob.
Name: R Thomas Date: December 22, 1998 at 12:27:30 Pacific
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am interested in the same thing....... have nothing to offer at the moment, in the way of advice, but am working on it..... how far have you got???
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Response Number 2
Name: Jim McGraw Date: January 31, 1999 at 23:11:49 Pacific
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I do not have a solution, but I am also interested in the same question. I have many files to convert. Would also be interested in whether anyone knows if SuperCalc 5 is Y2K compatible.
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Response Number 3
Name: Paul Garland Date: February 9, 1999 at 23:16:00 Pacific
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I am still using SC4 and have the same problem if anyone comes up with a solution
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Response Number 4
Name: Paul Garland Date: February 10, 1999 at 02:17:14 Pacific
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For smaller spreadsheets export the file in 123 format. Then import the 123 format into Excel. With large spreadsheets you will get an error message "Cells out of range" but it works fine for reasonably sized spreadsheets. pgarland@compuserve.com
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Response Number 5
Name: Stephanie Keenan Date: February 11, 1999 at 07:55:05 Pacific
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Enquiry on behalf of a colleague who no longer has a PC with supercalc installed but would like to open some old supercalc files in Excel or 1-2-3.
Can anyone suggest a means of doing it? Thanks
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Response Number 6
Name: Tim Babel Date: March 19, 1999 at 12:19:26 Pacific
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Converting SuperCalc sheets will work with Lotus, then into Excel, but I have SuperCalc 5.5 still in use, and intend to take it forward into the year 2000. Largely the conversion does not appeal because all the lengthy self-building auto-run macros I have written are meaningless drivel in Excel. Its date-handling is until 2046 if I recall, and performed well on all tests that I tried. Network support officially stops at Novell 3.12, but I am searching for other options.My network guru no longer wants to be involved with Novell. Has anyone made it work over the Win 95 microsoft peer-to-peer arrangement ? Files and printing move fine via windows, but no recognition of it from within SuperCalc; "path not found".
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Response Number 7
Name: Layne Moroe Date: April 30, 1999 at 10:55:19 Pacific
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I am unable to export the supercalc spreadsheet using the lotus 123 extension. How can I do this?
Not sure if this will help but I recently had to export 2 supercalc files to Lotus. What I did was open the file in Supercalc, choose export, and choose convert to .csv file. Once I had this converted I was able to open it in Excel and save it as a .wk4 file for Lotus. It seems to work fine and hope this may help someone out there.
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Response Number 9
Name: Jenn Mewes Date: May 28, 1999 at 12:43:27 Pacific
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Actaully I was wondering if someone could tell me how to get in touch with the company that owns SuperCalc, I am looking for year 2000 information.
can anyone please send me SC5.ZIP file? thanks! zmisha@hotmail.com
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Response Number 11
Name: Laurie Hawkins Date: June 8, 1999 at 05:11:15 Pacific
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If you don't mind spending some money, there's a company out there that will convert your SuperCalc files for you (including all formulas). See http://www.triousa.com/Convert/Supercalc.htm
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Response Number 12
Name: Steve Rossi Date: September 18, 1999 at 16:47:43 Pacific
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To Jenn, The company that developed Supercalc is Computer Associates but, they agreed with microsoft to stop supporting it in the USA, because Microsoft was developing Excell and Microsoft did not want the competition. So unless you are in Europe you are out of luck. So much for free trade within the US but, I guess its OK if your not an American. Another Supercalc user, Steve
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Response Number 13
Name: Steve Rossi Date: September 18, 1999 at 17:01:29 Pacific
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While we are on the subject.Anyone know where you can get up to date printer drivers for Supercalc 5.5... If there are any computer genius's out there that can convert them. You can make big $$$$$. There are millions of us traped in the old Supercalc Sread sheet as it was developed before the P.C.. I ran Supercalc Ver 1 on UNIX in a Camilion Box. When Dos 1 came out there was Supercal Ver2 we could calculate 10 lines of simple numbers and thought this was the greatest.I now run 20 year old shells on Supercalc that do 14000 calculations of "What IF" Thanks Computer Associates for dropping Supercalc You Traiters
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Response Number 14
Name: Jim Mastracco Date: September 22, 1999 at 20:18:24 Pacific
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I am able to convert SuperCalc 5 DOS files over to LOTUS .WK1 files - but I'm interested in preserving the graphs that I had originally created. Does anyone know of a Windows Version of SuperCalc?
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Response Number 15
Name: Tim Babel Date: October 19, 1999 at 11:25:00 Pacific
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Interestingly enough, reference to an English-language version of a current Windows CA-Supercalc appeared via a search engine from inside an overseas company web-site.
http://www.latech.co.za
Good luck, people.
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Response Number 16
Name: des meyers Date: December 7, 1999 at 08:57:30 Pacific
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There is a Windows Supercalc version 1 only Lots of silly little bugs Does anyone know of a way to keep the dimensionality of Supercalc models and go into Excel?
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Response Number 17
Name: John Chase Date: January 4, 2000 at 15:36:41 Pacific
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My copy of Supercalc 4 seems to be y2k compliant provided the "today" function is not used and dates are entered in the form "edat(1,1,2000)" rather than "edat(1,1,00)"
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Response Number 18
Name: Erich Wagner Date: January 5, 2000 at 04:29:45 Pacific
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I use a lot of Supercalc SC4 and agree with John Chase about the TODAY function, it does not work after 1.1.2000 - I have found a fix, you will need to use DEBUG to patch the machine code in SC4.com - the change just involves changing one word of data. Email me for details.
I have some files in Supercalc (.cal files). I need convert to Excel. How can I do.
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Response Number 20
Name: Roy Dean Date: January 21, 2000 at 23:34:44 Pacific
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I've tried several exports from SC4 in order to load into Excel. It seems export data still doesn't load to Excel. I hope someone will continue tring.
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Response Number 21
Name: Hilly Date: February 10, 2000 at 03:10:02 Pacific
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I am interested how to make a conversion from SuperCalc 4.0-files to Excel 97.
If possible (also) in Dutch.
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Response Number 22
Name: John Pinkerton Date: March 17, 2000 at 23:46:54 Pacific
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SC to Excel. It depends on what you want. As far as I can find out there is no way of transferring macros, graphs etc. I'm based in UK and can't find any non US CA support. Small simple spreadsheets can be transferred via lutos from SC5 , but I believe not SC4. Keep it coming......
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Response Number 23
Name: John Carter Date: March 21, 2000 at 01:22:47 Pacific
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I've seen references to SC5 v5.5 searching with "Google" (great engine!); my version is Sc5 v5.0 - 11 years old & runs on MS-DOS5.5 Is this the same as the v5.5 or is the v5.5 a later version that can save to higher than *.wk1? Also I've seen ref. to "SC v1.0 for Windows" is this as good as MS-dos SC5 vis advanced macros & "/" commands or is it a crappy version like Excel?...
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Response Number 24
Name: John Carter Date: March 21, 2000 at 03:26:01 Pacific
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These extracts from Resumes found while searching above topic are enlightening:- ***************** David Phipps 140 Dominican Drive San Rafael, CA 94903 Phone: (415) 457-6138 Fax: (415) 460-6474 eMail: David Phipps, phippsd@best.com
June 1992-May 1993: Senior Software Developer, Computer Associates International. Senior member of a twelve-person team developing Compete! 5.0, a multidimensional spreadsheet product used to study interrelationships between critical business variables in large corporations. Project involves over two thousand source files spread across thirty large DLL's, and depends on messaging and arrays of pointers to exported functions for inter-DLL communication. This highly complex product was upgraded from version 4.2 to version 5.0, which involves a substantial rewrite of the code to offer a toolbar, statusbar, and menubar components along with an MDI interface.
Personally responsible for several high-level spreadsheet tools, model and sheet interaction, user selection and painting, charting functions, and internal functions throughout the project, as well as code that converts Compete into SuperCalc for Windows. Supervisors: Walt Piescor, President of Micro Systems Division, and Walter Mair, Technical Lead. Computer Associates International, 1240 McKay Drive, San Jose, CA 95131. Phone (408) 432-1727.
*********************8 Resume of ARTHUR T. HU
reads:---
email arthurhu@halcyon.com Available: immediate web page http://www.halcyon.com/arthurhu updated 12/96
1/90-8/90: Computer Associates, San Jose CA Senior Soft-Eng
Supercalc GUI design, 2X speedup of assembly Supercalc 5. Windows Supercalc was killed after licence for spreadsheet code from Mosaic Software failed.
*** 1983-89: MOSAIC SOFTWARE, Cambridge Ma R&D Leader 7 years *****
89: Twin for MS-Windows, Level III with 3D features, minimal/background recalc. 87-88: Integrated spell checker, advanced macros, string functions, multiple regression. Directed translations into Asian and European languages, UNIX port, assembly speed-up, Turn integrated spreadsheet into Twin, the first DOS 1-2-3 macro-compatible spreadsheet. 83-4: Project lead and spreadsheet architect for Integrated-7 package, One of the first DOS PC integrated packages successfully implemented in C. Left before company lost to Lotus look and feel lawsuit.
I'm especially interested in Erich Wagner's 1/05/2000 "one word" debug fix for the TODAY problem in SC4. He suggested "email me...", but of course, I must rely upon you to do that.
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Response Number 26
Name: Lester Cowell Date: June 20, 2000 at 20:54:44 Pacific
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I have used SuperCalc since the CPM version and made the transition to DOS without problems. I still run SuperCalc v5.5 and regret now not purchasing CA Complete.
Like many other correspondents, I have been searching for a SuperCalc for windows.
There is a European version, especially Finnish version come up on searches. CA just dont return my emails about purchasing CA Complete.
There is a busines product I recall from CA that does read *.cal files. Just run a search for supercalc and computer associates in Lycos.
There are several paths to interchange data. but anything other than flat data is difficult. In Export, the csv format, dif, xif all import into my Alpha database. Excel loads *.csv and indeed WIN98 defaults to excel to open *.csv files.
The rich structure of supercalc files that I have not found in any other product is simply missing. Shame on you CA for abandoning an excellent product.
I too have had no success with the self loading automodifying macros.
It is very heartening to see that there are still users of DOS SuperCalc in this Win 9x era.
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Response Number 27
Name: Steve Teeper Date: September 28, 2000 at 03:54:50 Pacific
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My problem is that all I have is the Supercalc 5.0 files saved on floppy. I don't have the program, and the hard drive it was on died. Any ideas, or can someone send me their supercalc in a zip file?
Thanks to all.
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Response Number 28
Name: Dave Smith Date: October 5, 2000 at 13:22:30 Pacific
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I also have used supercalc since cpm days. Have many business spreads in Sc4 and have lost the distribution disk. Also lost the export utility thru the years. Am still using it w/out a hitch but would like to export to Excel.
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Response Number 29
Name: Jack Currie Date: October 17, 2000 at 17:56:00 Pacific
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I have used Supercalc5.5 for many years and have many many files far to many to covert to Excel. However I have tried for some time to obtain supercalc for windows without success, I like Supercalc and still use it but I believe the windows version is very good. Can anybody help me?
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Response Number 30
Name: colin skipsey Date: November 20, 2000 at 14:08:14 Pacific
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Does anyone have a copy of Supercalc 5.5 that I could use to try and convert some important files that need to be in Excel format. If so how big is it?
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Response Number 31
Name: Heinz Steinhauer Date: November 25, 2000 at 10:10:24 Pacific
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I am using supercalc 5. This worked fine in windows95. I just purchased a new computer with Windows me. Supercalc 5 works fine in this environment, except I have very little memory. Does anyone know how to make more memory available to supercalc 5? I have 256 of ram available on my computer.
Thanks
Heinz
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Response Number 32
Name: Sarah Date: December 13, 2000 at 14:51:36 Pacific
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I have some files I need to open in sc3 1.3 or 3.1 ( I can't remember) and deleted the program - ooops any ideas please?
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Response Number 33
Name: michael higgins Date: December 14, 2000 at 04:58:09 Pacific
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I changed my hard drive recently and reload supercalc 5 which works fine. my problem is that I cannot get my printer to accept a command from SC5 the printer works fine from windows but not from calc help.
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Response Number 34
Name: R V Chari Date: January 1, 2001 at 06:58:59 Pacific
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MY SUBJECT IS NOT ABOUT SUPERCALC TO EXCEL/LOTUS CONVERSION IT IS ABOUT HAVING A SUPERCALC VER 5 WITH ME. I HAVE BEEN USING SUPERCAL FROM 1985 ONWARDS BUT RECENTLY I LOST THE HARD DISK AND THEREFORE I WANT ANY VERSION OF SUPERCALC 4 OR 5.
S O S CAN ANY ONE HELP
PLEASE MAIL ME AT jayanthi@bom7.vsnl.net.in
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Response Number 35
Name: D Spilsbury Date: January 3, 2001 at 11:32:22 Pacific
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I too have managed to erase my hard drive without saving a copy of SC5!!!!!!!!!
Please help if you can by mailing a copy to spils@cwcom.net.
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Response Number 36
Name: Don Pierce Date: January 4, 2001 at 23:12:08 Pacific
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I might be able to help with a copy. Also I am looking for print drivers that work with new HP Laser 4L or 1100 series.
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Response Number 37
Name: Nick Clay Date: January 9, 2001 at 04:11:38 Pacific
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I have many files created in Supercalc 3 but only have Supercalc 1 program files - does anyone have a copy of Supercalc 3 that they could supply me with - has to be on old 5" floppy!!
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