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  3. February 2003

RE: Output from PF to Excel XLS file in IFS

There's a big difference between CSV and XLS, even if Excel does open them
both...   There's a TON of things you can't do in CSV...  such as how
columns & rows are formatted, fonts, formulas, macros, etc...

I keep thinking about creating an RPG IV service program for generation
spreadsheets (along the lines of the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel package for
perl, except that it would run natively on the iSeries) but I always seem
to have something more important and/or urgent to do.



On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Dennis Lovelady wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be simpler to just change the Winblows file association for
> .CSV to open EXCEL?  Or is that too simplistic?
>

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