G'day Javier, In hindsight, is it possible to estimate how much time it saved converting rather than rebuilding from scratch?
As a guide, and only on average, how long did it take per form and report? I only ask as a DOS client may wish to upgrade and some estimate based on your experience would be better than none. At 17:54 08/10/02 -0500, you wrote: >I found that when I converted from DOS to Windows many of the fields in the >report translated with the wrong justification, i.e. text would translate >right justified, currency left justified, etc. Also, many times the text >fields would translate with a border where the original report did not have >one. I have tried every setting to no avail. I submitted to RDCC as a bug >and the status is "verified/no plans to include." If your DOS report uses >the compressed and landscape text option where you can fit app. 160+ columns >in a regular size page it will translate spread over app. 16 in. (regardless >of what is your default font size in Windows reports), and you will have to >relocate the columns. So be ready to manually correct the location, >justification as well as other display properties. I hope that you do not >have too many reports to convert, I had to convert over 80 reports and it >took a lot of time. Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au "... the control of impulse -- is the first principle of civilization."-- Will Durant, Pulitzer Prize winning philosopher, writer and historian the most needed product in the world can be found at www.thewaytohappiness.org This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
