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Worm

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Posted: 04:03am 11 Jul 2011
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I have saved the "FRIDGE.BAS" programe from SC into my maximite and run the program. Now how do I transfer the saved file ending in .XLS into microsoft excel?
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seco61
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Posted: 04:24am 11 Jul 2011
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Hi.

Take the SD Card out of the Maximite and place in a SD Card reader on your PC. Then you can copy the file to your local drive or you can open the file from the SD Card directly.

Double clicking the file should invoke Excel - or open Excel and select the file from the file menu.

Hope this helps.

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Gerard

Edited by seco61 2011-07-12

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Worm

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Posted: 04:38am 11 Jul 2011
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I take it you can not transfer files from SD card through maximite to my PC? I am using Tera Term. I dont have a card reader yet.
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seco61
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Posted: 04:52am 11 Jul 2011
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Hi.

There is no means of doing this directly.

However, you could write a simple MMBasic program to read the file from the SD Card and print the file to the screen.

Then you could just copy and paste from the Tera Term screen into a file on your PC.

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Gerard

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Worm

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Posted: 05:05am 11 Jul 2011
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Thanks Gerard for your input. I had thought of using the maximite to read the content of the file on the SD card, but I am new to programing and I dont know where to start or how to write a program like you suggested. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Kevin
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seco61
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Posted: 05:47am 11 Jul 2011
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Hi.

Here is a quick snippet of code that will print the contents of the fridge.xls file to the screen:


100 OPEN "FRIDGE.XLS" FOR INPUT AS #1
110 DO while NOT EOF(#1)
120 line input #1, fridge$
130 PRINT fridge$
140 LOOP
150 CLOSE #1


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Gerard

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Worm

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Posted: 06:13am 11 Jul 2011
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Thanks Gerade. I shall have a play.

Thanks
Kevin
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