(heavily edited for tone and clarity) > You just went from requiring one bit of code to requiring another Not in the slightest. I went from requiring customi

(heavily edited for tone and clarity) > You just went from requiring one bit of code to requiring another Not in the slightest. I went from requiring customized code, including a whole build framework for a specific programming language to requiring only the tools one can assume are installed, and no code. For the task of "querying spreadsheets with sqlite", there are only two programs you can assume the user already has: Sqlite, and spreadsheet software. :) I think that's a safe and reasonable assumption, no? ssconvert is part of Gnumeric. One can do the same thing with libreoffice but I didn't know the syntax offhand. [0] [0] loxias@host:~$ libreoffice --convert-to csv superstore.xls