Discoverer 4.1, OLE, Oracle 8i

I've tried the demo - no joy, won't start (not clear how to login to the demo so that's probably a problem, followed the directions but no clue if 'video4' is a user name, password or db or what values should be used for each).
I've picked through the code, pretty straightforward but not sure it has what I want.
What I want -
Start a 3rd party app.
Connect to a Discoverer workbook
Run the query (don't need to modify anything, just run the query).
Pull each line of data into my 3rd party app (didn't see this in the demo code and can't figure out the api description provided).
To keep it simple, assume the 3rd party app is Excel and I want to map each column in the Discoverer worksheet into a column in Excel. How would that be done?
If there is more complete documentation and examples of the OLE methods on-line, please feel free to point me in that direction - I've searched Oracle, Noetix, and googled for 1/2 hour without any luck.
TIA for any assistance.
Doug

Hi,
When users are removed from the system their privileges in EUL4_ACCESS_PRIVS are not removed. However, when the privileges are exported and imported only the privileges of valid users are imported into the EUL. Therefore it could be that the missing privileges relate to users that are no longer on the system. You would have to check in the original EUL4_ACCESS_PRIVS to confirm that.
Rod West

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Hello
(Text translated of French into English )
We arrived at the limits of our internal comptences and seek solutions for advanced:
Have you got any solution to me... or to provide me contact which can help us with OLE Oracle/notes.
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