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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
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  3. From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
  4. Subject: Re: Can Hypercard use Excel's databases?
  5. Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
  6. Message-ID: <jpugh-171192134703@wolverine.apple.com>
  7. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:47:26 GMT
  8. References: <1992Nov6.145241.4592@kth.se> <jpugh-091192234504@kip2-56.apple.com>
  9. Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
  10. Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
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  12.  
  13. In article <jpugh-091192234504@kip2-56.apple.com>, I wrote:
  14. > 
  15. > You can communicate with Excel from Hypercard via AppleEvents, given that you
  16. > use Ed Lai's SendAE XCMDs.  These allow you to build object specifiers that
  17. > Excel will understand.  It isn't trivial and you need Excel running to do
  18. > anything.  Personally I would write an Excel macro to translate and dump
  19. > the files to text and then another to read them into Hypercard.  I think
  20. > this would be simpler, given the state of Hypercard's AE support, although
  21. > Ed's XCMDs do work and would allow you to do a bunch of really cool stuff. 
  22. > They aren't for the weak of will though.
  23.  
  24. It turns out that Ed's XCMDs are on ftp.apple.com already in
  25. /pub/appleevents
  26.  
  27. Go for it.
  28.  
  29. Jon
  30.