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
the bits back in order!
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From: George Gallen<ggal...@wyanokegroup.com>
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Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File
Why back in our day, the bits traveled at 110 baud, and simplex too.
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ent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 12:57 PM
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why when i was writing interfaces we did it with rocks and sticks, AND we
ad 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.
ince it's never in text fields, you always get the data across with no
roblems.
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mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David A. Green
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I have to say amen to Tony's comments. Why try and reinvent the wheel when
here is a utility already written? Or throw out some kludgy solution when
native one can be found?
David A. Green
480) 813-1725
AG Consulting
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mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno
ent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:06 PM
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ubject: 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
or Excel and you give them a CSV you're just perpetuating the myth that
ick is a dinosaur. They will gladly spend tens of thousands of dollars to
eplace your application with something that creates real Excel (and PDF)
espite the fact that such things can be attained at low cost or no cost
ight now. Trust me, I've seen it happen.
This dove-tails with the reasons why people get 20 people to support Oracle
hen they can have 3 working on Pick. The reason is that the Oracle people
ay "yes", and give them pretty reports, when their Pick guys say "no", and
ive 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
nd-user requests. Just ask them what they do with the documents after you
enerate them. If they really just want raw data, OK. But if they go on to
ell you how many days it takes to reformat the data, assemble the multiple
SVs into a single workbook, etc, then you have found a great deal of room
or improvement. Yeah, I've been there too.
Off the soapbox, thanks.
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