Hi Terry, > The shell script saves everything as three files; the data in text > form (space separated, with a variable number of spaces between each > value) and the variables as text and as html. > > The output of both of these is good in that you can get at the data, > but not brilliant for a semi-computer literate person like my daughter > (or most students, I would have thought). On the one hand, you have > to be competent enough to run a shell script and then meld the two > components after importing the data with the right separators. On the > other, the import is a bit easier, because the commas make it obvious > where the delimiters are, but there is no indication of what the > variables were.
The http://jalvesaq.googlepages.com/sav2dat.html shell script can probably be altered to give you the output you'd prefer if it's already making the content available, IOW doing the manual meld for you if it's mechanical. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tue 2010-03-02 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
