[ale] importing CSV too much to handle?

[Geoffrey]

I understand what csv is, although referring to it as table data is 
kinda windows thinking.  Delimited data is more likely an appropriated 
definition.

Unfortunately, csv data in the unix world is pretty much a guess, since 
text files don't have a magic to work off of.

Master Wizard wrote:
> .CSV -Comma Separated Values. ie table data, which in windows is excel.
> Ed.
> 
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Am I missing something?  When I click on a .CSV file, it 
>>>> automatically opens
>>>> in Excel.  What's hard to handle about that?  Furthermore, if I'm 
>>>> already in
>>>> Excel and I open a .CSV file, the same thing happens.  It's pretty much
>>>> indistinquishable from an .XLS file in the way it acts.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand.  Are you indicating that in Windows when 
>> you select a file with a .csv ending it automagically opens in excel?
>>
>> I personally don't find that comforting.  I prefer to be asked what I 
>> would like to open a file in.  Of course this is a matter of 
>> configuration in both OS's.
>>
>> For me, Microsoft tools all to often make decisions for me that are 
>> not the right answer.
>>
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