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- From: daves@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dave Straker)
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:53:59 GMT
- Subject: Re: HP NewWave 4.0
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, CCSY Messaging Centre, UK.
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- >I'm working on a way to take data from an HP3000 and bring it into an EXCEL
- >spreadsheet/report format. Want to create a "seamless" one-step command for
- >the user instead of having them log into the 3000, transfer data, and then
- >go into Excel. Thought NewWave may be able to help us here. Any ideas?
-
- HP Advancelink for Windows and NewWave at first glance may look like
- a 2392A/700-94 terminal emulator, but when you get into it, then you
- find that it's just the host integration product that you were looking
- for.
-
- Through the scripting language with the product, which has an excellent
- DDE interface, it is possible to do just what you want. You can
- have a button in the spreadsheet that fires up a macro that sets
- off Advancelink and DDE's commands to it to get the requisite data
- from the host and pass it back. All the user sees after the click
- is the data appearing in a cell (or whatever the macro does with it).
-
- Cheers,
-
- Dave
-