Re: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and ODBC

2006-06-08 Thread Joel Rees
Up front caveat, I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of thing, but, ... On 2006.6.8, at 02:36 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: Celeste Suliin Burris wrote: I'm a bit confused as to why you need to use ODBC. I just connect to the remote MySQL server via the DBI when I'm using Perl. I hav

file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread Joseph Alotta
Greetings, I am trying to read a CSV data file of names and addresses into Now Contact. However the import feature does not see this file as it is ghosted. My conclusion is that it is looking at the file creator information. How do I see this information? Apple-i, Get Info, does not sh

Re: file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread Dominic Dunlop
On 2006–06–08, at 17:20, Joseph Alotta wrote: I am trying to read a CSV data file of names and addresses into Now Contact. However the import feature does not see this file as it is ghosted. My conclusion is that it is looking at the file creator information. How do I see this informati

Re: file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 10:20 am -0500 8/6/06, Joseph Alotta wrote: Greetings, I am trying to read a CSV data file of names and addresses into Now Contact. However the import feature does not see this file as it is ghosted. My conclusion is that it is looking at the file creator information. How do I see thi

Re: file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread Joseph Alotta
Thanks Dominic and John. After playing around with it a little, the type attribute must be "TEXT". I guess I can just do a call to system () to set this. Thank you for your help. Joe. [PowerBook-G4:~/Desktop] jja% /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo c.txt file: "/Users/jja/Desktop/c.txt" type: "

Re: file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread Dominic Dunlop
On 2006–06–08, at 18:46, Joseph Alotta wrote: Thanks Dominic and John. After playing around with it a little, the type attribute must be "TEXT". I guess I can just do a call to system() to set this. Thank you for your help. Careful! If you use SetFile to do this, you'll end up with a sc

Re: file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread John Delacour
At 7:35 pm +0200 8/6/06, Dominic Dunlop wrote: On 2006–06–08, at 18:46, Joseph Alotta wrote: Thanks Dominic and John. After playing around with it a little, the type attribute must be "TEXT". I guess I can just do a call to system() to set this. Thank you for your help. Careful! If you

Re: file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread Joel Rees
I am trying to read a CSV data file of names and addresses into Now Contact. However the import feature does not see this file as it is ghosted. My conclusion is that it is looking at the file creator information. How do I see this information? Apple-i, Get Info, does not show this. Not a

Re: file creator id, etc

2006-06-08 Thread Chris Devers
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Joel Rees wrote: > Not a perl topic, but isn't there a Finder setting that determines > whether Get Info allows access to this or not? Not a Perl solution (or is Ruby close enough to count?), but RCDefaultApp may help with problems like this: http://www.rubicode.com/Softwar

Re: Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and ODBC

2006-06-08 Thread Mike Schienle
On Jun 8, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Joel Rees wrote: Up front caveat, I don't have a lot of experience with this kind of thing, but, ... On 2006.6.8, at 02:36 AM, Mike Schienle wrote: Celeste Suliin Burris wrote: I'm a bit confused as to why you need to use ODBC. I just connect to the remote M