in reply to Two parter...

Short answer: You can't install the Win32 suite of modules on Linux. Even if you could, those modules include DLLs and provide hooks to existing Win32 APIs, so I'm not sure what you'd gain by installing them on any sort of *nix machine...

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Re: Two parter...
by kendo (Novice) on Dec 14, 2000 at 23:37 UTC

    I do most of my development on a *nix machine, and what I have to do is parse an excel spreadsheet and update it onto a SQL Server. Is there another way around that...?

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