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A native port of Lotus 1-2-3 to Linux.
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/Data External #91

Open jibanes opened 2 years ago

jibanes commented 2 years ago

I just found out about /Data External which seems to allow the use of database drivers, possibly to connect to a relational database. I didn't find much about this, I doubt odbc and those things were available back then, but it would really be interesting if it was possible to populate a few cells from an external program automatically without the use of macros. I'm still looking for more docs about this, any ideas welcomed.

taviso commented 2 years ago

There is an API we could use to add basically any data source - in theory there's no reason we couldn't add odbc, or anything else. At the moment there's just the stub driver that doesn't do anything, but I had thought about adding a Google Finance driver or something!

jibanes commented 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I had in mind too, would be an interesting way to monitor the markets.

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There is an API we could use to add basically any data source - in theory there's no reason we couldn't add odbc, or anything else. At the moment there's just the stub driver that doesn't do anything, but I had thought about adding a Google Finance driver or something!

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