OT: OpenVMS question

[Joe Boyle]

witty ( or otherwise ) asides aside, whether tab separated or comma 
separated, the .csv extension seems to do the job; presumably space 
separaters are assumed to be 'space embedded' strings.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Boyle" <atla38 at dsl.pipex.com>
To: "'Powerhouse List'" <powerh-l at lists.sowder.com>
Cc: "'Etienne Rompré'" <erompre at koala-tech.com>; "'Johnson,Harold A 
EDUC:EX'" <Harold.A.Johnson at gov.bc.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:50 AM
Subject: RE: OT: OpenVMS question


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> [mailto:powerh-l-bounces+atla38=dsl.pipex.com at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf 
> Of
> Darren Reely
> Sent: 12 April 2007 00:57
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> Cc: Etienne Rompré; Johnson,Harold A EDUC:EX
> Subject: Re: OT: OpenVMS question
>
> Etienne, good point, but Harold did not say of the file used comma
> separator values. The columns may be separated by spaces, or tabs, or
> some other custom value.
>
> Harold. Your question led me to believe you were looking for a generic
> utility that could handle differing delimiter values. Sorry, I have no
> answer for that.
>
> If you are using comma separated values, here is a good source of
> information. This particular link goes to the part of the page regarding
> Excel & leading zeros.
> http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm#CSVAndExcel
>
> Darren
>
>
> Etienne Rompré wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you save the file with the .csv extension, Excel should open it
>> automaticaly.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Etienne
>>
>>> Anyone know if a utility exists to convert delimited text files on Vms
>>> to an Excel type format?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>
>>
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