On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 9:58 AM Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote:

>    1) I am wondering if there is a difference between
> where the type is XLS or XL5.
>

Nope, according to: https://www.tedroche.com/hackfox7/s4g059.html

"Both COPY TO and EXPORT copy selected data to another file. We can't see
much reason to use EXPORT, since COPY TO can do everything it does and
more. (In fact, we're fairly convinced EXPORT exists only because IMPORT
does.)"



>    2) I know that memo columns are not exported so for tables with
> them, I am creating a cursor with the memo columns replaced with
> C(254) columns.  In a few cases, this will result in data being
> clipped.  Short of programming my exports to use Office Automation,
> is there a way around this?  (I mean that is not a kludge.  For
> example, I could create multiple columns each with a piece of the
> memo, but that would be horribly ugly.)
>

For some projects, I created a textmerge file, named it something.CSV and
use textmerge to export the PK and commas and text delimiters and the memo
fields. Rejoining the two data sources was left as an exercise for the
receiver. Be wary of the need to escape text delimiters if used within the
memo field, i.e., O'Reilly or "Sold "As Is" "

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com


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