Bet you had ones AND zeros .. We couldn't afford the ones ... Brian
Sent from my iPad 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. > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [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' > Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File > > 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 > problems. > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David A. Green > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:20 AM > To: 'U2 Users List' > 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 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno > Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:06 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File > > Not responding to any particular quote here, just the CSV topic in general. > > Respected colleagues, CSV is not Excel. If you have an end-user that asks > for Excel and you give them a CSV you're just perpetuating the myth that > Pick is a dinosaur. They will gladly spend tens of thousands of dollars to > replace your application with something that creates real Excel (and PDF) > despite the fact that such things can be attained at low cost or no cost > right now. Trust me, I've seen it happen. > > This dove-tails with the reasons why people get 20 people to support Oracle > when they can have 3 working on Pick. The reason is that the Oracle people > say "yes", and give them pretty reports, when their Pick guys say "no", and > give them plain text in columns and rows and call it "Excel". > > Please don't let that happen to you. Be sure you are properly responding to > end-user requests. Just ask them what they do with the documents after you > generate them. If they really just want raw data, OK. But if they go on to > tell you how many days it takes to reformat the data, assemble the multiple > CSVs into a single workbook, etc, then you have found a great deal of room > for improvement. Yeah, I've been there too. > > Off the soapbox, thanks. > T > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
