open MS Word files

[Jan Schenkel]

--- sims <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:
> >
> >>  Also isn't DDE double-deprecated now? Someone
> told
> >>  me it was the
> >>  predecessor of COM which is out of favor, now
> with
> >>  .NET? Sheesh.
> >>  Richmond.
> >>
> >
> >Yes, it is deprecated, and _will_ disappear along
> with
> >a huge truckload of other APIs when M$ Longhorn
> comes
> >marching in.
> >
> >>  On Windows isn't there some kind of Scripting
> Engine
> >>  Architecture?
> >
> >Oh, a Scripting Engine Architecture -- like Apple's
> >OSA, you mean ? Nah, that would be far too easy.
> You
> >know, developers like you and me might make
> software
> >that can do more than their stuff.
> 
> Excursions from my Mac into Windows World are
> frustrating.
> Hell, I'd settle for:
> 1. Open doc (given the path)
> 2. Save as Plain Text
> 3. Close doc
> 
> Such a simple procedure is not possible?
> <sigh>
> 
> sims
> -- 

Nonono, don't get us wrong : it _is_ possible. It's
merely a matter of finding out _how_ -- you might try
posting your problem over on a Word newsgroup: 
microsoft.public.word.programming

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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