From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-08-04T10:05:11+09:00
Subject: Re: libole2 and ruby

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> i'm looking at libole2 as a portable method of reading excel files.  it seems
> this project has been taken over by the gunmeric guys so i expect it'll be
> maintained.  has anyone out there opted to use this via ruby dl in any way 
> for
> some project? any opinions on using this vs. some other method of reading
> excel files.
>
> thanks.
>
> ps.  for those of you who don't know me on the list : i know alot about *nix
> but almost nothing about windoze ;-)

replying to myself: it seems the info i was reading was not correct - the docs
for libole2 seem to indicate that it's solely for interfacing with the
'filesystem in a file' setup in ole files - so sorry if original post was off
base.

cheers.

-a
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