Data writing object - (c) J.G. Ferreira, CIS 100326,1361.

This upload allows a program to save records from TPW (and BP7 with minor changes) to
ascii space-delimited files, ascii tab-delimited files, and MS-EXCEL vers 2.1, 3, 4 and 5.

I use it to save data to file from a database in TPW and paradox engine, and results
from mathematical modelling programs.

A sample app. BIFFALL.PAS is provided which creates a file called test.xls in the root
directory of C:\ and saves different types of data to it. You may then use Excel to
open the file (or notepad for ASCII files). 

Parts of this are adapted from:

BIFFLib 1.00 object: 
Object for reading and writing BIFF-files                           
Copyright (C) Marcus Hettlage 1993

uploaded to the Pascal forum on CIS, and MS-SDK data.
I found the object rather difficult to work with, so here a different approach is used.

Some of the BIFF code is translated from C from an example by Todd Lucas from
Microsoft. The classes were built by me, but the approach for writing the record 
header separately and then the data is from him. It is however made much simpler by
using objects.

If you want to further develop the classes to read excel files, save formatting info,
etc. refer to the Excel SDK books from Microsoft Press or to Marcus Hettlage's object.
Feel free to use these files as is, extend them, change the code etc.

Let me know of problems/comments.

With thanks to all (on this forum an otherwise) for help in so many different ways,
specially to Marcus Hettlage, Todd Lucas and Frank Plas.