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Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:28 am**

You could use

run <mygoogledrive>:\testsave

but this assumes the file is named testsave.prg. Unfortunately you cannot use

run <mygoogledrive>:\testsave.txt

I would look into getting google docs to open text files that do not have *.txt extensions (ie get google docs to open prg files by default).

Posted: **Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:56 pm**

perfect, thanks again!
Thomas

Posted: **Tue Sep 06, 2016 4:37 am**

After the last update, it works perfect! Being able to work on program files in Google Docs is great!

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Posted: **Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:22 am**

Hi Jason

in 2016 you stated that "2) We are still working on this one.".

any progress yet?
Thomas

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2018 6:30 am**

Hi

Figured out an alternative way to execute Google Docs as EViews programs. Given a Google Document, such as,

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use the FILE ID and insert it in the following program

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%fileid= "1-T-3yjhYNJbwk3-8z_zf1afdGVo63iYLBM7TNeZybXY"
call googledocs(%fileid) 'executes the Google Doc as EViews program 


'-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
subroutine googledocs(string %fileid)
   %filename   = "googledocs_may_be_deleted.txt" 'will be saved in @runpath folder
   %dir=@runpath

   'downloading google doc as txt file
   %code1="wget https://docs.google.com/document/d/"
   %code2="/export?format=txt -OutFile "
   %code=%code1+%fileid+%code2+%dir+%filename
   shell powershell -command {%code}  'downloading google doc file

   'create txt file to execute program
   %t=@getnextname("_t") 'txt file
   text {%t} 'create text file
   {%t}.append(file) {%dir}\{%filename}
   {%t}.save {%dir}\googledocrunprogram.prg 'save text file as program
   exec {%dir}\googledocrunprogram 'execute new program file
   close {%t}
endsub

This way of doing it is a bit faster (takes 2,5 seconds instead of about 7 seconds when using the cloud connector in EViews) and Eviews will not unexpectedly shut down (viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19330)
Thomas

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