Re: Slightly off-topic, but it references something Jason mentioned

I believe News400 did something similar to what you are looking for. There
should be some code in the below link.
http://www.news400.com/code/newscode/code9807.exe

All there free code samples are listed here....
http://www.news400.com/code/newscode/

David

>
> Jason mentioned that he has managed the following....
>
> >Can Excel import XML?  I hacked a utility called asdbget which uses FTP
and
> >some AS/400 specific magic to retreive files from the 400 and put
translate
> >them in to ASCII XML format (which has a header describing the complete
> >file layout).
>
> Can you tell me how you managed this ? I am trying to work out a method of
> converting AS400 spool files to ASCII so that I can then display them as
part of
> a web page. My thought is to give "manager-type" reports to the
manager-types
> without giving them access to the AS400 spool-files.
>
> The steps I believe I need to take are:
> 1) Convert the spool-files to ASCII (or XML, or whatever...)


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