[rescue] Re: Determining the country of orgin for IP address(es)

[George Adkins]

> > > publicly available on our web site in Excel format
> >
> > They would be possibley useful if they were available in an open, docu-
> > mented, non-proprietary format that I actually had a *hope* of reading.
>
> The Excel formats have been documented and reverse engineered well
> enough for two free programs to read and write Excel file very well in
> my experience:
>
Sure, I can download OpenOffice, install it, (on a machine running X) then 
download the file, open it, and then save it into a comma-delimited text 
file, so that I can use it on a machine where I need it ( Like a firewall or 
something).

Or, they could have simply published it as a comma delimited file in the 
first place.  One that can not only be opened by Excel like a spreadsheet, 
but which the rest of the world's programs could access and manipulate 
(mangle) to create useful data.

George