Opening other applications from within Revolution

[Phil Davis]

After reading Mathewson's post and re-reading yours, Steve, I'm guessing 
I mis-answered earlier. You would rather get spreadsheet data out of the 
spreadsheet and into Rev, right?

It might be possible to write a vbscript that reaches out and asks Excel 
to give it the tab-delimited text of some selected spreadsheet, but I 
haven't tried it. Ken Ray may have a related tip on his web site. 
(Looking...) I see this one there, related but not spot-on:

   http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/iac001.htm

All the best -
Phil


Stgoldberg at aol.com wrote:
> I have an Excel file on my hard drive that I would like to access from within 
> revolution (just like I can access the Internet through RevGoUrl).   What 
> command can issue to open and see the file?   I am having some trouble trying to 
> do this through the "open" or "open file" commands.   Thanks.
> Steve Goldberg