Hey, I proposed this last month for contests and PSK ragchews using
QRZ.com as the database...
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 7:32 am, kd4e wrote:
>> If we did not have to send all the formatting of a message type, and
>> only sent a special identifier of the format, the text data would be a
>> fraction of the total we would normally have to send compared to a
>> .doc
>> file or even a much more efficient Open Office native .odt file.
>> 73, Rick, KV9U
>
> This is a fascinating concept that bears further
> attention.
>
> I cannot think of any reason why this could not be
> done.
>
> It is like moving comma-delimited files from one
> database to another.
>
> The database templates and reports and input
> screens are all held locally, only the raw
> data files move. The program "knows" what to
> do after Importing the raw data.
>
> I am going back to my dBaseIII days to recall
> this but it should work fine.
>
> --
>
