You should be able to save the excel table as a text file, with a tab
separator. You may need to use sed to convert the line_end from
windows to unix form. Then use the psql copy to put the data into the
table.
Use vi to create a to_dos.sh
#! /usr/local/bin/tcsh -f
cat $1 | sed -e 's/$/^M/' > xx
where the ^M is a single character entered with control-v controm-m,
Then use this to convert the text
tomdean