Re: Re: COM
| From: | Lara J. Fabans | Date: | Thu, 23 Aug 2001 03:51:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: COM | ||
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At 05:40 PM 8/22/2001 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
I heard refs on using the COM interface to access MS Word files. Is this a procedure an interface that only works on Windows systems (as that is where Word runs)? Yes... Almost for sure... There *MIGHT* be some hack port of COM objects to Un*x, but you'd be better off using a doc2xxx utility to convert Word to something usable instead.You're supposed to technically be able to save COM objects out to a CORBA idl; however, that may be far more work then the original poster wanted to do. MS did join the OMG, and there are supposedly some tools out there, but nothing as easy to use as java2idl. --------------------- Lara J. Fabans Lodestone Software, Inc lara@lodestone-sw.com