> As an aside, I wrote Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and as it happens I wrote one of its simpler precursors in Pascal. :-)

Could you show me some code? I was reading all the MS specifications on excel files (BIFF, XML, etc.), and I figured out that the worst work is to write all the headers, data structures and constants. With all this stuff in my hand, it would be easy to port SpreadSheet::WriteExcel back to Pascal.

I use the freepascal compiler. A unit similar to Spread... would be a useful contribution.

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