With all of this talk of UD to D3, I'm interested in converting a client
from Microdata *to* D3.
That client is semi-proficient in MCD and to be quite honest, I'm not that
interested in the 6/7 line dict items as compared to the 10 line ones. He's
pretty good at creating A-type or F-type and leaves the more complex ones
for me.
I also have a client that was on MCD and now on UD and I detect a conversion
utility that must have been run that took the original 10 line dict items
and converted them to the 6/7 line dicts for UD, leaving the original 10
line dict item on the UD line 10 with a non-processing delimiter. Keeping
the old dict item was probably for familiarity purposes.
While they worked, they all became the REUSE and SUBR style on 002 that take
some getting used to.
While I have some clients on UD/UV, i'm not as good as others who focus
wholy on UD/UV. Based on the speed deficiency, I've installed many phantom
process on this MCD starting programs so that long reports do not tie up the
actual user issuing them. They use the spooler pretty flexibly, more
flexible than D3.
The ironic thing may be that for the last 12 years of working on this
client, all of my MCD tricks may have caused a greater burden for any
upcoming conversion. C'est la vie. This client is pretty savvy and won't
convert unless there are really, really good reasons. But the dialog has
already been startd on a possible upgrade based on disc space.
I guess my question is to learn of some conversion headaches that I may
encounter. I know that Northbridge exists but haven't heard anything beyond
their own words on how great they are. Real-life opinions are very
important.
Thanks in advance.
Mark Johnson
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