Definitelly, you can have DBD::Proxy installed on your client and
DBI:ProxyServer on your wintel machine and therefore communicate through the
proxy and use any DBD installed on your wintel.
Ilya Sterin
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Harmon
To: Sterin, Ilya
Cc: 'Simon Oliver '; '''[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ' '
Sent: 05/03/2001 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: Extract data from MS Excel Spreadsheets. Can it be done?
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
