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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by IanCal on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:30AM (#24698011)
Although make sure to not use that for the first column heading, an uppercase I will make excel think it's a SYLK file and then refuse to open it.
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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by TacoSteemers on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:10AM (#24698455)
Good catch! The Wikipedia page confirms it.

Nothing in software development is as straightforward as we might hope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_Link_(SYLK)

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