OpenEuphoria

Re: Read/Write Microsoft Word documents

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Jul 18, 2004
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You can simply tag a .txt file as .doc, that works ok. If you want to
use documents with formatting, that is another thing altogether, and
quite complicated. .rtf formated files would probably work, while not
being as complex as microsoft word files.

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:13:15 -0400, Michelle Rogers
<michellerogers at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to have euphoria
>   1.  write files in Microsoft word format?  (or is this impossible)
> and the reverse of that..
>    2.  Read in data from a Microsoft word document, instead of plain text.
> 
> One reason I'm asking is because i've found a small basic-derivitive
> language to code on Palm OS.  I want to be able to interact between the palm
> (i have a class set of 25) and the main computer.  Basically, the students
> would all use Palms..and they would hot sync to the main (teacher)
> computer..which would automatically grade/correct their work and also enter
> it into my grading program.
> 
> Here's my problem...
>    just plain text files won't "hot sync"....i can "hot sync" Word To Go
> documents from the palm to the pc.  The pc reads them in as a word document.
> On the other hand, I can send a word document from the pc to the palm, and
> the palm reads it in as a "word to go" document.
> 
> Wait...I may have just solved my own problem.  Would it work to simply name
> the files with a ".doc" extension...but still treat them as a plain file?
> 
> 
> 
> 


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MrTrick