Re: Read/Write Microsoft Word documents

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Oh, I forgot to mention that I intend to use euphoria to code on the pc, and
simply read the data that was "hot-synced".
Michelle Rogers
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michelle Rogers" <michellerogers at bellsouth.net>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: Read/Write Microsoft Word documents


>
>
> 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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