Hi Maarten; There are Perl CPAN modules to create/write Excel and parse Excel (one of many examples http://search.cpan.org/~havi/Spreadsheet-Excel2Text-0.03/lib/Spreadsheet/Excel2Text.pm) which should work (I've not recently tried them) on cygwin. Search for these at http://search.cpan.org...
Hope this helps, Ken Wolcott -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple