Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Wq1 file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to xml in the search box.
Press Convert.
Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.wq1 -c "convert to xml" (how).
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Let your AI agent convert WQ1 to XML
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine. It works on Windows, macOS only.
“Convert the WQ1 files in my Downloads folder to XML”
Or run it yourself:
filestarcli -i file.wq1 -c "convert to xml"
Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows and macOS. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.
Can my AI agent convert WQ1 to XML?
Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.wq1 -c "convert to xml" on your computer, so your files stay on it.
A wq1 file is a spreadsheet created with Borland Quattro Pro for DOS, a spreadsheet application released in 1989 for MS-DOS. It contains one or more worksheets with rows and columns of cells, which contain text, numbers, formulas, and objects.
An XML file is an XML (Extensible Markup Language) data file. It is formatted much like an .HTML document, but uses custom tags to define objects and the data within each object. XML files can be thought of as a text-based database.
