Re: [Sheflug] Can open office help?

[Bob Holland <bobholland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:30, Alex Hudson wrote:
> Well, if there's no temporary file, something very odd is going on. It
> could be Excel is sourcing the information directly from SIMS - which
> would be interesting - or that SIMS is essentially pasting the
> information into Excel.

I guess they might be using Dynamic Data Exchange... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Data_Exchange

This and related technologies are widely used in process control to get 
applications talking to each other & I guess this would fit here too.

Bob

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