From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-10-10T06:49:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Building an Excel spread sheet on UNIX and displaying it in 	WIndows

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Ruby Student <ruby.student@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a flat, text file of size (row,col) where row > 50 and col > 10.
> The file is created in a UNIX server.
> Is there any way to create an Excel spread sheet while in the UNIX server,
> with the flat file, and then be able to use it on Windows from Excel?

there was a thread about this just recently, check the archives

http://rubyforge.org/projects/spreadsheet

http://surpass.rubyforge.org/

martin