Re: RPG and Word ?

Actually there are tools that let you talk directly to MS Word from an RPG
or CL program.

Our iSeries Office Integrator product is one such offering, although it is
a commercial product.

Check out our web site for more info on the iSeries Office Integrator. You
can request a FREE demo.

You could also write sockets programs on the iSeries and a PC, but by the
time you wrote the code from scratch you could purchase a supported
product.

Another FREE option would be to write RPG or Java code to create an XML
formatted MS Word document using the new Open Document Format.

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Richard Schoen
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message: 6
date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:24:18 -0400
from: "Jon Allen" <jallen@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: RPG and Word ?

Search Google for "RPG FOR WORD" We use this product to do similar
stuff.

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joep Beckeringh
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:21 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: RPG and Word ?

David,

There is no way (that I know of) that RPG can talk to Word. What you can

do is create a file and open it with Word. Problem is that .doc is a
proprietary format, so it is not feasible to create a .doc file from RPG

(there is an open source project for accessing Office documents,
especially spreadsheets, with Java, about which Scott Klement has
written a lot, but the Word part of it does not seem to be very useful).

But you can create a .html document (e.g. with CGIDEV2) and open it with

Word. Another option is .rtf (Rich Text Format), but HTML is much better

documented.

If you must do anything with Word, you'll have to program on the PC
side. You could use MS Access, create an ODBC link and program in Visual

Basic. You can access Word and its object model from VB.

Joep Beckeringh