And I should clarify that the biggest part of my nightmare was having
someone do a RESIZE CONCURRENT on one of the largest major most utilized
files during business hours...
uhhh
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mitchell,
Stewart
Ok, I wasn't going to fess up, but I guess I will now. I've been
programming various languages since 1974, and never learned how to use the
debugger till 2000. I was too busy, ok?? :) I still use a lot of PRINT (or
CRT if the PRINTER ON has been issued) and INPUT statements, just to save
time
One of my customers is interested in extracting data from Universe into Excel
by himself without having to have a program written for each import to Excel.
If he learns the names of the files and their dictionaries, and which
attributes are multi-valued, or even sub-valued, (and of course Excel),
If he wants to do this on an ad hoc basis, I'd recommend looking at
DOWNLOAD, available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cedarville.edu.
The syntax for DOWNLOAD is very similar to standard query language, and
DOWNLOAD can export data in CSV, DBF, DIF, HTML, XML formats, among others.
Larry Hiscock
Dave Taylor wrote:
One of my customers is interested in extracting data from Universe
into Excel by himself without having to have a program written for
each import to Excel.
If he learns the names of the files and their dictionaries, and which
attributes are multi-valued, or even
Hi Dave,
Not sure about Universe, but in Unidata there is the braces function which
when fed a dict name and a few other things, will pull out that data exactly
as it would if it had been in a LIST statement. It is very easy to then
just build a program that will go to a list of dict names, and
Larry,
I'll take a look at it.
Many thanks,
Dave
Dave Taylor
President
Sysmark Information Systems, Inc.
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If you use AccuTerm they have some very nice programs for dynamically
reading dictionaries from Excel.
Nancy Fisher
Peninsula Truck Lines, Inc
Auburn, Washington
253/929-2040
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From: Dave Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello Dave,
We have been integrating Mulitvalue data to Windows, Java and the XML for many
years. FusionWare has evolved with all the different standards that have been
developed along the way.
You have asked for a solution that the customer without having to have a
program written for each
