Gentlemen;
In the course of trying to emulate some simple data processing functions
of the early mainframe era, I was surprised they weren't readily
supported by current standard tools.
In particular I wish to enter text into predefined (fixed location)
fields in a record as opposed to
On 12/14/2012 02:02 PM, john wrote:
In particular I wish to enter text into predefined (fixed location)
fields in a record as opposed to variably delimited fields. In other
words emulate the punched card record where card columns are assigned to
particular data character columns. Those
Hello John,
Eric Blake wrote, On 12/14/2012 04:19 PM:
On 12/14/2012 02:02 PM, john wrote:
In particular I wish to enter text into predefined (fixed location)
fields in a record as opposed to variably delimited fields. In other
words emulate the punched card record where card columns are
