Yes Here is what I used.

excel /read c:\temp\book6.xls

i found the answer a few months aggo att the microsoft webpage

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...580301033.aspx

"Michael" wrote:

I am looking for a way from a batch file to start excel to open a specific
xls file and then save it in tab delimited text format and then close the new
.txt file.
I have a PERL script that requires the file to be in the .txt format in
order to parse it.
I have many files that require this operation and it would be easier to
drive this process with this type of functionality.