Re: Creating tab delimited files


"foodman" <foodman123@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In the Olden Days, there may have been a reason for using such
delimited files.
Why bother? Just make it fixed-field format and save yourself the
headaches.
Surely, you cannot have a space or speed problem.

tony dilworth

On Planet Dilworth the villagers know that their COBOL lord has provided the
one true path for them.

Problems are resolved quickly and effectively by directives from the
Department of COBOL Solutions, empowered by the Holy Church of Fundamental
COBOL, under the pastorage of Lord Tony. Dissent or questioning are not
tolerated and any attempt at original thought is punishable by
excommunication.

The heretical idea that sometimes systems may need to communicate with other
systems that are NOT written in the Holy Scripture, would not even occur to
any right-thinking Dilworthian.

And yet, sometimes, when sleeping huddled for warmth around the fires at the
back of their caves, the people are troubled by strange dreams...

Dreams of spreadsheets and databases and computers that can talk to each
other. Computers that can fit in a pocket, or rest on a lap, without wires
or plugs. Computers that DON'T have green screens and can show pictures, in
COLOUR.... Strange mystical networks that can connect computers across the
entire planet and transfer information instantly to precisely where it is
needed.

Of course, the Thought Police diligently trace anyone having recurrent
nightmares of this nature and they are extracted for "re-orientation".

Fixed fields. Fixed solutions. Fixed approaches.

So it has been, and so shall it always be.

"Blessed be Lord Tony and the Holy Scriptures from whence cometh our
Solution."

Pete (the Heretic)



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