TSP can find my data file that I made in Microsoft Excel (Quattro Pro, etc). Where is it?
Actually, TSP can read files from the hard drive just fine, but the problem is that you have to give TSP the *exact* location of the file. Since a hard drive has many nested directories, this can sometimes be difficult. Unfortunately, Windows 95 hides the directory (folder) names to a certain extent, which makes finding the exact location difficult. Even the Find command from the Start menu will not give the full directory names if they are more than about 15 characters in length. So sometimes it is necessary to use the “My Computer” icon to search through folders, or to run the MS-DOS Prompt. To give TSP the full pathname, you should use a command like: READ(FILE=’\EXCEL\DATA\BOOTER.XLS’); . Finally, if you have a filename with more than 8 characters (not including the file extension), such as ARGENTINA85.XLS you will need to reduce the name to adhere to the DOS 8.3 rule (8 characters for the file name plus three characters for the file extension), because TSP can not currently read l
