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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:22:02 -0500
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- From: Tom Scott <Tom_Scott@QMRELAY.MAIL.CORNELL.EDU>
- Subject: Extracting Memo fields
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- Extracting Memo fields
- I'm working on a project right now which is an adaptation of a system we've
- previously been using for three years now. Currently, we're extracting fields
- from 3 related databases into a text file which we then call the WordPerfect
- CONVERT program to convert it into a mail merge file. We're using FoxPro 1.02
- on an IBM PS/2 Model 50. It's worked fine up to this point, but......
-
- Ah yes, there's that "but". Now we're thinking about customizing the mail
- merge so that each subset of the data (specifically we're extracting students
- that are to be accepted to the Engineering school, and each subset represents a
- different field of engineering that they've expressed an interest in) will
- receive a slightly different letter. What we'd like to do is maintain a
- seperate database that contain the interest code and the paragraph to be merged
- into the leter for that interest code to be held in a memo field in this
- database.
-
- Once we get to the point where we copy to a text file, and then convert it to a
- WordPerfect mail merge document, we lose the paragraph contained in the memo
- field. It saves first to the text file and then automatically converts to mail
- merge format, so I'm not positive which of these two operations causes the
- problem, but I suspect it's the former.
-
- Does anybody have a suggestion on how to extract the contents of a memo field
- to a text file for subsequent processing into a mail merge. This is the first
- time I've tried something like this, and I've hit a brick wall. So I'm hoping
- the collective net consciousness might have a solution.
-
- Thanks in advance!!! :-)
-
-
- Thomas Scott, Systems Manager, College of Engineering
- Cornell University, Carpenter Hall Annex, Ithaca, NY 14853
-