Hi Bob,
I don't suppose CrowFlite can be obtained these days, can it? It looks
like Phil has retired. If it were available, would it work with the
newer versions of Excel? What about Open Office?
In the 80s I worked for a university in Florida, where we used a
Pick-based spreadsheet modeled
You said this was written for Revelation. Isn't Revelation a Windows based
version of PICK, and thus the .bat file it builds will be running Excel which
must be loaded on the server?
I have a UNIX box which will not have Excel, thus this solution does not appear
like it will work for me.
If
Rev G2b was released in 1986 so it is truely Dos based
once Unidata has written the .TXT or .CSV file I assume you'll start up some
command shell that would be provided by accuterm or whatever
I have used the same type of program for both of the U2's in a windows
server
environment
Rich
This looks VERY promising!
Thanks
John
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From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Butera
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 7:04 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
I have to say amen to Tony's comments. Why try and reinvent the wheel when
there is a utility already written? Or throw out some kludgy solution when
a native one can be found?
David A. Green
(480) 813-1725
DAG Consulting
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Compusheet? I remember working with that!
-Dianne
On 2/7/2012 6:50 AM, Charlie Noah wrote:
Hi Bob,
I don't suppose CrowFlite can be obtained these days, can it? It looks
like Phil has retired. If it were available, would it work with the
newer versions of Excel? What about Open Office?
In
Hi Dianne,
You're telling your age here! ;^)
Actually, it was EasyCalc, which was probably very similar to Compusheet.
Charlie
On 02-07-2012 9:30 AM, Dianne Ackerman wrote:
Compusheet? I remember working with that!
-Dianne
On 2/7/2012 6:50 AM, Charlie Noah wrote:
Hi Bob,
I don't suppose
On 2/7/2012 6:50 AM, Charlie Noah wrote:
Hi Bob,
I don't suppose CrowFlite can be obtained these days, can it? It looks like
Phil has retired. If it were available, would it work with the newer
versions of Excel? What about Open Office?
CrowFlite is long out of date, both in support of
Hm, don't remember EasyCalc, but Compusheet was on a Reality system. It
was so much easier when we only had to know what was native in our own
systems and not be concerned with a million different things to connect
to in the outside world!
-Dianne
On 2/7/2012 10:45 AM, Charlie Noah wrote:
Amen! I don't think I would want to go back to 9600 baud serial
communications, though. My first Reality job was contract programming
for a local service bureau, using an ADDS Viewpoint terminal and 300
baud acoustical coupler. They handed me the terminal, modem and a set of
manuals and said
IIRC didn't VMARK buy CompuSheet, at around the same time they bought JET?
It's probably lying around on and old QIC somewhere..
I'd just written a JET and Ultiword emulator for UniVerse when they popped
up with JET. Grr.. but a long time ago.
And back to topic I second the use Tony's tools
Dig it up and market it because Universe is no longer offering JET.
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From: Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk
To: 'U2 Users List' u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 9:43 am
Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
IIRC didn't VMARK buy CompuSheet, at
what a horrible thought ... some things rightly belong in the trash can of
history. Jet and Runoff are definitely in that category.
Brian
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Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Dig it up and market it because Universe is no longer offering JET.
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why when i was writing interfaces we did it with rocks and sticks, AND we
had to walk through the snow to do it. barefooted
AND WE LOVED IT!
;-)
actually i'm kinda surprised no one mentioned using TAB as a delimiter.
since it's never in text fields, you always get the data across with no
Why back in our day, the bits traveled at 110 baud, and simplex too.
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 12:57 PM
To: 'U2 Users List'
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Bet you had ones AND zeros .. We couldn't afford the ones ...
Brian
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On 7 Feb 2012, at 18:08, George Gallen ggal...@wyanokegroup.com wrote:
Why back in our day, the bits traveled at 110 baud, and simplex too.
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From:
When I was a kid we had to carry the bits from one computer to the other by
hand!
In a tray! And if you dropped that tray you spend the next week putting all
the bits back in order!
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Before we had monitors, WE used to have to write code with magnets!
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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 1:19 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re:
Ick, that reminds me of a time I was carrying punch cards and dropped
them all out of order :
On 2/7/2012 1:19 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
When I was a kid we had to carry the bits from one computer to the other by
hand!
In a tray! And if you dropped that tray you spend the next week putting all
Just think if you had dropped them IN order you could now be in the Data
Processing Hall of Fame !
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From: Dianne Ackerman dia...@aptron.com
To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 10:32 am
Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
Ick,
I just did something very similar last week. 'CSV' is a VM delimited
dynarray to be converted:
VCNT=DCOUNT(CSV,@VM)
FOR VPTR=1 TO VCNT
CSVCELL=CSV1,VPTR
IF INDEX(CSVCELL,',',1) OR INDEX(CSVCELL,'',1) THEN
CSVCELL=CHANGE(CSVCELL,'','')
We were running JET until our latest UniVerse upgrade earlier this year.
We used it all over and the users actually resisted when we told them it
had to go. Go figure. After a few days testing with our own code they
saw the light.
- Josh
On 2/7/12 12:46 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
R.I.P.
On 07/02/2012 17:52, Brian Leach wrote:
what a horrible thought ... some things rightly belong in the trash can of
history. Jet and Runoff are definitely in that category.
Brian
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Wjhonsonwjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Dig it up and market it because Universe is
So what are they using in place of JET?
Did you ever use JET-EDIT to edit your programs?
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From: Joshua Gallant jgall...@cbd.com
To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 12:41 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
We were running
John,
I hope you have received some useful ideas by now. We use UniVerse on a
Windows Platform. After MS Office 2003, the use of xls/xlsx files have been a
little more structured. What we do is generally use tab delimited files when
the end user will only accept a data file. What we prefer
From: Bob Rasmussen
It would be conceivable, though not necessarily
profitable, to have an Excel add-in that would pull
data out of Pick via a network-based object call.
Conceivable? How about Done. Phil Gerber has referred people to
NebulaXChange as the replacement for CrowFlite.
Can you license this logic to Rocket? Seems like getting the 'check box'
for the database would serve them well, and would be a drop in the bucket
for them to throw dollars at you that would be FAR more than you would
likely get licensing it one-off yourself. Just a thought. Rocket should be
Sorry, Tony, I should have been aware of your offerings.
Maybe you need to charge A LOT for your product, and then people would be
interested :-)
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Tony Gravagno wrote:
From: Bob Rasmussen
It would be conceivable, though not necessarily
profitable, to have an Excel
A friendly discussion arose recently among some U2/MV Developers about whether
to include code.
If any of you have opinions about the positive aspects or negative aspects of
this practice, please respond. Should it be adopted as a best practice, or
rejected as special situation use only?
An include is fine for declarations, but not for executable code due to the
fact that individual lines in the include cannot be debugged (on Unidata).
Declarations like EQUates and common blocks are best uses for includes.
The need to break apart big routines due to some arbitrary limit (i.e.
On 07/02/12 23:46, Kevin King wrote:
An include is fine for declarations, but not for executable code due to the
fact that individual lines in the include cannot be debugged (on Unidata).
Declarations like EQUates and common blocks are best uses for includes.
The need to break apart big
I agree with Wols; a subroutine takes more memory and is slower to launch
but is so much easier to work with in any sized system. It's funny, our
subroutines are oddly similar to how Microsoft implemented DLL wrecknology
for Windows, but we've never had the kind of hell that Windows programmers
Amen Tony.
I don't know how many times I get a call from a user saying for some
reason my XLS/XLSX parser doesn't work with the Excel file they have. What
the user really has is a CSV/TSV file with a XLS file extension that some
programmer decided to name the file. This is because EXCEL doesn't
I think somewhere this jumped the track.
No one is saying that CSV is Excel
Rather the OP wanted a way to read an Excel file on the Iphone.
Can the Iphone natively read Excel files?
I know that it can natively read csv files, because we're doing it.
It puts the csv file into a neat table with a
There are plenty of reasons to include code, and issues like variable
assignment should be able to be addressed with minimal care as to scope of the
variables -- if you use I in a for/next loop and include or execute some
code in the loop that also uses I, U will get what you deserve.
As per
From: Kevin King
It's funny, our subroutines are oddly similar to how
Microsoft implemented DLL wrecknology for Windows, but
we've never had the kind of hell that Windows
programmers experience. Funny how that works... :)
I completely disagree. Have you never been working on code in a
Wil, while the OP asked about reading Excel on an iPhone, the
title of the thread is Building an Excel File. That prompted
suggestions for how to create Excel, including use CSV.
Yes, all spreadsheet clients including Excel will open a CSV
file.
But that led to my assertion that CSV is not
sounds awesome tony, really. rocket shouldn't launch without it
:-)
On 2/7/2012 7:14 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote:
Wil, while the OP asked about reading Excel on an iPhone, the
title of the thread is Building an Excel File. That prompted
suggestions for how to create Excel, including use CSV.
My comment that csv files can be read on the Iphone without any effort and they
look nice only addresses the issue of reading tables on the iphone. Period.
That's it. That's essentially what the OP wanted, unless of course some cells
are actually calculated values.
The information that we
Wil, you didn't say 'I', so you're not saying it 'again'.
I responded to what you said.
You're doing that troll thing again.
So again, I say - Just stop it man.
From: Wjhonson
And again I never said csv was Excel.
From: Wjhonson
No one is saying that CSV is Excel
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