export from filepro to an excel file

[Walter Vaughan]

> I don't know much about Excel so I don't know its capabilities in
> interfacing with databases.  I do know that I demonstrated OpenOffice.org's
> spreadsheet at a local Apple OS X users group office applications SIG, and
> the people who were using Microsoft Office didn't think they could do that.

Don't know about "MS-Office for Mac", but their PeeCee version has full access 
(snicker) to just about anything you can think of. You could even set excel up 
to use a web query and have filepro supply the data as a web service.

We've been demoing SYSPRO software here and one of the demos they trot out is 
how easy it is to develop an order entry system with full security(as far as you 
get from those folks in Redmond) in excel. The example was for ordering shoes in 
various styles sizes and colors, and the interface just kinda worked for 
entering a lot of data in a lot of random locations.

Back to filePro...

Of course this would be easier if filePro "The RAD Environment" allowed for a 
separate data storage layer or if fpSQL would work over a IP.AD.RE.SS:PORT deal 
like MS-SQL, MySQL, PgSQL, Sybase, Interbase, or Oracle. Again, just "read only" 
today would keep filePro on death row for a long time to come, especially if the 
structures returned we identical to existing SQL servers.

I don't envy TPTB at fpTech. Who is their customer 5 years from now? Everyone is 
getting out of packaged sofware