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Re: Read/Write Microsoft Word documents

• Posted by Michael Raley <thinkways at yahoo.com> Jul 22, 2004
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Michelle Rogers 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.

I doubt that your language running on the palm itself will let you write 
"word" files. You need to find what file mechanism it suppports, such as palm
doc
format. 


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