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10.3 Connecting NExS to the Outside World

       

An NExS spreadsheet has the ability to connect to external programs called NExS connection clients. NExS connection clients can:

    Connection clients may be programs running on the same workstation as NExS itself, or they may be programs anywhere in the computer network. For example, you might have a connection client running on a supercomputer on the network which extracts a block of data from the spreadsheet, performs a compute intensive simulation, and returns the results to the spreadsheet where they may be viewed, printed, graphed, or further analyzed.

There are four basic ways in which an NExS connection client can extend and enhance the NExS spreadsheet:

Consider the potential for using connections in your work - having NExS accept, process, display, and transfer information to and from other programs in real-time, that is, as it happens, being continually updated on screen as you watch. For example, you could:




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NExS User's Guide, Version 1.4.5
Grey Trout Software
11 April 1999