[Info-vax] Coding Excel files...

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2014-02-12 13:39:
> In article <52fafbba$0$8113$c3e8da3$3304c218 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> On 14-02-11 18:54, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> I'm not so certain I'd want to be jumping into kernel
>>> mode with BASIC.
>>
>> But isn't kernel mode the default for you, and you only have to worry
>> about things breaking on those rare occasions when you jump to user mode
>> ? :-)
>
> Pretty much so. :)
>
> I've been at SUPERVISOR mode in a lot of my time working on a DCL debugger
> I've mentioned here a few times.  I'd been called away from that in recent
> weeks to work on RMS CDC (EXEC mode), coded an Excel spreadsheet generator
> (USER mode) for a client that writes their app in COBOL (on OpenVMS),..

That is, coding COBOL to create files in Excel/XLS format?

I have done the same at my client, but I used the builtin
Excel tools (xlrd, xlwt) in the Python kit. Makes handling
of Excel files a breeze. Yes, you need some data transfer
from the Cobol apps to the Python Excel generator.

Jan-Erik.


> made
> new Postscript forms and logos artwork (not really OpeNVMS but used there),
> and setup and configured a *new* Itegrity Blade cluster even though nobody
> has been buying Itegrity for OpenVMS as per HP's "suggestion".
>