Re: Sending data to a script over SSH

[Chap Harrison <clh at pobox dot com>]

defaria wrote:
> 
> Why are you trying to deal with a very manual, step by step, point and 
> click method of thinking and doing? The basic task here is to get data 
> from an Excel worksheet (which is not a good input method to start with) 
> to a text file. There are programmatic ways to do this. You can, for 
> example, extract data from an Excel spreadsheet using Perl.
> 

This is not *my* preferred way of doing things; it's the way my colleagues
are used to doing things.  To put it mildly, they don't work smart.  I'm
trying to gently introduce them to the amazing world of automation while not
upsetting them completely :-D .  Eventually, when they realize that Mr.
Computer can save them hours and days of mind-numbing drudgery and carpal
tunnel syndrome, the scales may fall from Mr. Boss-man's eyes and he'll ask
me to build something that'll be *really* easy to use.  


defaria wrote:
> 
>> From Cygwin, I can get at the clipboard through /dev/clipboard - very 
>> handy indeed!  Only problem is that this requires that Cygwin be 
>> running in the same copy of Windows from which I'm doing the cutting 
>> and pasting.  This turns out to be a hard sell to management, who'd 
>> prefer that I keep Cygwin running in its own Windows environment.
> This part didn't parse for me. Wouldn't running Cygwin on the machine 
> you are doing the cutting and pasting be it's own Windows environment?!?
> 

Well, not nearly so much as having it run in a separate machine.  I don't
know exactly how deeply it ties itself into the Windows OS (I know virtually
nothing about Windows), but I *do* know that if anything happened on the
Windows machine (that's shared by several users), suspicion would
immediately fall on Cygwin.  

My boss worked for IBM for ten years, in Marketing.  Fear, uncertainty, and
doubt run deep for him.  I'd like to run Cygwin directly on the "production"
machine (it has been superbly reliable for me) but superstition is tough to
battle directly.


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