Organization: Yale University School of Management
References: <93022.110733U58373@uicvm.uic.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:00:12 GMT
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In article <93022.110733U58373@uicvm.uic.edu> <U58373@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>However, I have 2 questions:
>
>1) Why is there no FLIMPORT equivalent supplied with Pdox 4.0?
I asked the same question, and was told that Borland did away with
Flimport for version 4.0. I don't know why.
>
>2) From your experience, what is the best way to import these types of
> ascii files, i.e. is there a better way than using FLIMPORT?
The best way is a 3rd party program called Condiut from Kalista, INC.
This program handles this type of problem and many,many other types
of file conversions.
I have not bought it yet, but I will because I have the same type of
problem you do. At the present time, I'm still using Flimport. The problem
is that it creates 3.5 tables. This is fine if your creating a table with the import, but won't work with an existing 4.0 table. What I do is create the
file with flimport and then restructure it in 4.0 to convert it.
Mike Fanara mikef@homey.som.yale.edu Yale University
