Re: Extract data from MS Excel Spreadsheets. Can it be done?

[Randy Harmon]

How about DBD::Proxy?  Could the proxy server run on a Windows box
somewhere and have the client running on the Un*x box talk to the
spreadsheet through the proxy?

Randy

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:56:01AM -0600, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
> Also I would think that this is a big enough issue to address, since most of
> the servers are not NT and most of the clients are win32, therefore if
> clients are working on excel which is later uploaded to the server (Unix),
> it should be processed on the server side, rather than having users save as
> CSV.
> 
> Ilya Sterin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Oliver
> Cc: ''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' '
> Sent: 05/02/2001 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Extract data from MS Excel Spreadsheets. Can it be done?
> 
> Steve Sapovits wrote:
> 
>  > If I'm wrong about this and someone's used either DBD::ADO or
>  > DBD::ODBC on Sun/Solaris, I'd like to hear how you did it.
> One can't use DBD::ADO because that uses Win32::OLE which needs a Win32 
> Operating System.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Oliver