RE: [PHP-WIN] Excel not closing after using it via COM

2002-04-26 Thread Neil Lincoln
not properly unset())? > > --- > Scott Hurring > Systems Programmer > EAC Corporation > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 201-462-2149 > Fax: 201-288-1515 > > > -Original Message- > > From: Neil Lincoln [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, April 2

RE: [PHP-WIN] Excel not closing after using it via COM

2002-04-26 Thread Neil Lincoln
nAs my account "scott", so it shouldn't be plauged > by the "SYSTEM" ownership issue... even though > i haven't tested it) > > Please check out: http://furt.com/code/php/com_issues/ > (Read 'readme.txt') > > --- > Scott Hurring > Sys

RE: [PHP-WIN] Excel not closing after using it via COM

2002-04-25 Thread Neil Lincoln
On our systems the EXCEL COM object executes as a member of "SYSTEM" instead of as a child of the owner of the Apache/php server. When the COM object completes it leaves the EXCEL hanging around as a child of a SYSTEM process. -Original Message- From: Scott Hurring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [PHP-WIN] I want to learn more COM for my php script

2002-04-24 Thread Neil Lincoln
This problem is real and is undocumented as a bug by MS but has appeared several times in several newsgroups. No solutions were ever proposed. So I repeat our solution to this problem despite its brute force nature. We installed PVIEW and exec a pview KILL EXCEL* when we are done with the EXCEL C

RE: [PHP-WIN] Excel not closing after using it via COM

2002-04-23 Thread Neil Lincoln
I spent many hours on this and gave up and added a process kill for the EXCEL "zombie" after exiting the COM code. There must be a better way.. -Original Message- From: Scott Hurring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:40 PM To: Php-Win (E-mail) Subject: [PHP-WIN] E