Hi J,
As far as word format, if I were going to any marked up format, it would
be RTF ( at least until everyone understands XML, ) because it's much more
portable than trying to figure out word's format of the version. Actually,
though, in the case you describe, I'd just use a text file.
One of my most gratifying projects was a java application ( before
servlets ) that read spooled files off an AS/400 and wrote them to a PC
drive as formatted text, along with an index showing the report
title/heading, where they could then be written to CD-R and removed off all
hard drives. The client had accountants who ran reports as large as 7 or 8
thousand pages and kept them for more than a year. This was actually
beginning to affect processing. Afterwards they could just get the CDs and
load the reports into word, which made everyone happy. The only extra thing
I had to do was to write hard page breaks and word displayed the reports
just like the original AS/400 prints.
Joe Sam Shirah
Autumn Software
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeetandra Mahtani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, August 01, 1999 2:01 PM
Subject: Servlets and writing to a word doc???
>Hello:
>I was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction on the
following problem..
>I have a form where users enter their criteria and based on their
>criteria I retrieve a single record and display the details present
>in that record. I also want to give them an option to download the
displayed details in
>word format. Is it possible to do that?
>Appreciate it for any suggestions.
>Thanks,
>J
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