Re: Sending data to a script over SSH

2009-07-15 Thread Dave Korn
Chap Harrison wrote: > > 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 pr

Re: Sending data to a script over SSH

2009-07-15 Thread Chap Harrison
ared 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 superstitio

Re: Sending data to a script over SSH

2009-07-01 Thread Dave Korn
Chap Harrison wrote: > I'm wondering how to send a script invocation followed by the clipboard > data that the script will read and transform. I know how to use ssh to > send a command to a remote system; I can do that from DOS. But is there > any way to say "run this command and, by the way, th

Re: Sending data to a script over SSH

2009-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chap Harrison wrote: This question may well be non-specific to Cygwin, and perhaps more of an SSH or a Unix shell question. If you can suggest a better forum I'd appreciate it! The task is to fill out an Excel worksheet, copy a rectangular portion to the Windows clipboard, have a script read

Sending data to a script over SSH

2009-06-30 Thread Chap Harrison
This question may well be non-specific to Cygwin, and perhaps more of an SSH or a Unix shell question. If you can suggest a better forum I'd appreciate it! The task is to fill out an Excel worksheet, copy a rectangular portion to the Windows clipboard, have a script read the clipboard, tra