Nice but missed my point. I do not want to re-generate the reports. They're
fine as hold files. It's converting the hold-files to CSV that's the issue.

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "D Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [U2] Hold-file to CSV


> I created a program that creates a program and exports the result in a
tab-delimited file by using the data descriptors. I entered some standard
stuff like file, name, heading, data descriptors, break-on and id-supp. I
expanded this to launch excel and import it on the fly so that a user could
run a report in multi-value and the result would appear on his work station
in Excel a few seconds later. No repetitive headers or the rest of the
spooler junk. I than incorporated it to process the end-of-day reports and
store them in tab delimited format in the end_of_day folder on the server.
Then I emailed the excel reports the end users.
>
>
>
> D Raven
>
> P.O. Box 17811, Irvine CA 92623-7811
>
> -- "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wow, you pegged me properly. I once bought an SP-JOBS utility for D3
> (allegedly) and it was somewhat incomplete and had a few bugs that it
> basically taught me what to write and I wrote my own.
>
> P.S. If not for anything else, Microdata had one of the best spooler
> manager.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 8:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [U2] Hold-file to CSV
>
>
> > In a message dated 4/16/2005 7:34:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >
> > > Like many systems, this one is full of finished reports (both english
> and
> > > databasic) and the object is to send them to the hold-file and convert
> from
> > > there. I don't want to re-invent the report generation logic, just use
> the
> > > hold files.
> >
> > Yes you have to parse the headers to determine the column start and stop
> > positions and then scan the data to extract the column/row cell entries.
> >    I know you're the type that likes to program it yourself instead of
> buying
> > it off-the-shelf :)
> > Will
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