Re: extracting from Excel

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From: Dr. Robin Lake
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:59

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In article <gregers.712573306@oase> gregers@oase.kemi.aau.dk (Gregers Rom Andersen) writes:
>For feeding data into a robot, I want to extract  data from a spreadsheet
>Excel on a Mac, in a simple way.
>The data must be written in way suitable for input to
>a fortran program running under VMS. Does anybody know about such
>a program, macro etc.?
>Gregers


Thought #1:

Use an Excel macro to extract the information you want and write it out
in Text format into a file.

Thought #2:

Look at "Frontier", a Mac "shell scripting language", from UserLand, Inc.

Rob Lake
BP Research
lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com

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