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- From: ab046@ccn.cs.dal.ca (David Dares)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Final Data - Memo help
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 13:07:33 GMT
- Organization: Chebucto Community Net
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- Ric Fischer (ric@softwood.com) wrote:
- : ab046@ccn.cs.dal.ca (David Dares) wrote:
-
- : >I would like to export memo data from a Final Data database to an ASCII
- : >file so that I can import it into my Psion palmtop datafile. There seems
- : >to be no way easy to do this. Saving the FD file as ASCII data saves the
- : >memo field as "***" I can't think of a work around that is easy. If
- : >anyone can help please reply.
-
- : If you are comfortable with ARexx, you can write a macro that will
- : extract memo field data to a (text) file.
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-
- : - Ric Fischer
-
- Sigh, I'm not really that good with ARexx, but maybe this is the right
- time to learn it better.
-
- I find it strange that you cannot copy and paste between Text fields and
- Memo fields, nor can you copy/paste between the clipboard and FinalData.
- This would simplify moving data from a memo field to a Text field -
- which does get saved normally during an ASCII export and was one
- alternative option.
-
- Also my Psion - as limited as it is - allows me to select a user
- specified field delimiter, but FinalData only allows Commas. This
- creates a problem if I use a comma in a text field since FinalData will
- only export in Comma delimited text, the Psion must use this, but sees
- the extra Comma embedded in the field as a new field (even if it is
- surrounded by quotes [""]). Ergo, I must either manually edit out the
- extra commas or make sure I don't use any in my text fields.
-
- Dave
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