[rescue] Re: Determining the country of orgin for IP address(es)

[Steve Pacenka]

On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 22:41, Brent B. Powers wrote:
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Hechinger <wonko at arkham.ws> writes:
> 
>     Brian> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:01:07PM -0500, Steve Pacenka
>     Brian> wrote:
>     >>  The Excel formats have been documented and reverse engineered
>     >> well enough for two free programs to read and write Excel file
>     >> very well in my experience:
> 
>     Brian> there is also a perl module to read and write Excel
>     Brian> spreadsheets.  i know, i just used it to take server stats
>     Brian> and put them into a pretty multisheet workbook for suits.
>     Brian> and they thought i was going to do it by hand ever week.
> 
> Doesn't it work by opening up a connection to a running instance of
> Excel? 

That is one way to dump Excel files, but only on a win32 system.

It's a real cross-cultural experience to script the MS Office apps from
Perl using the MS object models.

-- SP