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To: Wolfgang Schoenle who wrote (115)	8/20/1998 10:11:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 205

Orders from Excel would be doable, but it sure sounds dangerous! The "order" part would not be too difficult. I'm not very familiar with Excel, but I know you can use it to send DDE commands, and probably OLE automation. You could write a server to receive these commands, and generate the order. Microsoft provides some pretty good tools now for talking to web sites. Though I avoid Visual Basic (I'm a C++ programmer) VB might be a good choice for writing this, as you can use it to write OLE controls. Actually confirming orders, though, is a bit tougher. You'd have to poll Datek the check messages, and then parse the messages to see when/if your order was executed. Not something that I want to do, but it could be done.