OpenEuphoria

Re: Read/Write Microsoft Word documents

• Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com> Jul 22, 2004
• 518 views

Well there is "Documents to Go" already, that's a portable
Office-compatible system.

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:33:55 -0700, Michael Raley
<guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
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> posted by: Michael Raley <thinkways at yahoo.com>
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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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MrTrick