9.0 Quattro
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This article is from the Spreadsheets FAQ, by Russell Schulz casfaq@locutus.ofB.ORG with numerous contributions by others.
9.0 Quattro
Quattro history
1-2-3 was the dominant spreadsheet on PCs for a long, long time.
`quattro' is similar to the Latin and Spanish words for `4'. Get it?
According to the 1994 Computer Bowl, the code name for Quattro was
`Buddha', since it was intended to assume the Lotus position.
9.1 Quattro file extensions
Felix Miata wrote:
> All versions of Quattro Pro I have used can read and write the
> Lotus WKS and WK1 file formats. A file saved as both a WK1 file
> and a WQ1 file results in the WQ1 file being the larger. Maximum
> cell contents length in the Lotus formats is 240 characters. For
> the QPro formats I have used (WQ1 & WQ2) the limit is 255
> characters. The special WQ! compressed format available to QPro
> DOS users reduces the contents length to a 245 character maximum.
> So, something is obviously different about the formats.
> The original Quattro used the WKQ format. Quattro Pro introduced
> the WQ1 format. The WQ2 format was introduced to offer multipage
> spreadsheet "notebooks" with version 5.0. The Windoze version
> readable by the DOS program is WB1.
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