Date:         Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:13:48 -0500
Reply-To:     Wensui Liu <liuwensui@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Wensui Liu <liuwensui@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: ftp an excel file
Comments: To: "Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>" <nospam@howles.com>
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No, I wasn't suggesting anything but was just asking for help.

On 2/2/07, Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org> <nospam@howles.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 18:02:18 -0500, Wensui Liu <liuwensui@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> >Hi, All,
> >I have a question about ftp an excel file using filename.
> >I can successfully download the file from ftp site to my local pc. but
> >some of the contents in the excel file has been changed, i.e. # of
> >column and # of row.
> >
> >Any idea?
> >Thank you all. Have a nice evening.
> >
> >--
> >WenSui Liu
> >A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming
> >(http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog)
>
> If I undertstand, you are suggesting that the FTP process has corrupted the
> Excel file, but that it is still usable by Excel. In other words, the
> problems involve spreadsheet *content* only. That all seems very unlikely,
> since FTP knows nothing about Excel file structure.
>


--
WenSui Liu
A lousy statistician who happens to know a little programming
(http://spaces.msn.com/statcompute/blog)