[olug] Database export problem

[Will Langford]

Friend and I were laughing the other night about that poor bastard
interperting a proprietary database :).
 And I was curious how far you've gotten, glad to hear makin progress heh.
 -Will
 On 10/9/05, Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, after 3 calls to their tech support, I've
> gotten 90% of the job done. Seems some members of
> their tech support don't know you can export the data
> to an ascii file...
> Right now I'm wrapping up; just have to copy and paste
> a couple of fields.... a couple of hundred times :(
> But I get paid by the hour, anyway, so :)
>
> --- Russ Dunham <russ at solution-tech.com> wrote:
>
> > Eric,
> >
> > The way I've done this over the years (since 1979)
> > is to write a program to
> > process the data and output the required format.
> > I've had to do this a lot
> > to save clients the grief you describe. If I can be
> > of service, email or
> > call me at (402) 333-0752.
> >
> > Russ Dunham
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Lusk [mailto:wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 5:23 PM
> > To: olug
> > Subject: [olug] Database export problem
> >
> > I'm trying to export a proprietary database format
> > so that it can be read by
> > Excel. The standard format of the database files
> > gives lots of garbage from
> > carriage returns, spaces, etc., in Linux or Windoze.
> > The program itself has an export option, but that
> > only exports 3-4 fields to
> > an tab-delimited file. I'm going to try and modify
> > the export options
> > tonight and keep my fingers crossed.
> > Anyone else have any ideas about removing the
> > garbage from a proprietary
> > file? I dread telling the client they'll have to
> > manually input 9000
> > clients....
> > TIA
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.ericshaus.com
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> > derive.
> >
> >
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