When I use xls2csv (part of catdoc package) it can't handle dates. -f switch is supposed to help, but does nothing, results are identical with/without it. xls2csv -f +%m/%d/%y Desktop/list.xls 2>/dev/null|head "updated as of: 09/25/08",,,,,,,,, ,"Name","Status","Host / Supervisor","Funding","Location",,"Start Date","End Date","Admin staff" ,,,,,,,,, "new","persong","Long-term Visitor","B. Wg","pending acct #","PST","49R","39739","40086","Aee" (2nd and 3rd to last fields are dates above) wiki, faq, and bug-tracking system for this utility all on a Russian site with weird certs that make me nervous, so I am asking here. Anyone know how to make this work? I pipe errors to /dev/null because it blats out many of these: Format a4 is redefined Thanks, Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines