Re: [mv] product.txt

[Eric Paul <epaul@spellbook.net>]

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The only thing you want to do is to bring the text file that Excel creates 
into a text editor and strip out all the quotation marks that Excel may 
have added.  Also be sure to ftp it in ASCII mode, otherwise you'll need to 
use tr or some such to strip out the ^M's from the end of each line.

And just to be safe, backup your current products.txt before you replace 
it.  That way if you messed anything up, you can go back to a working model 
quickly and debug in your spare time.

Eric

At 03:38 PM 4/26/00 , you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "David Bronson" 
><dbron@roman.net>     ******
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>Pardon my ignorance...
>
>I have a database on the server now that works fine. There are some entries
>that were input wrong and I used Excel to make changes (I opened it as TAB
>delimited and saved it as TAB delimited). The changes I made were deleting
>several entries (not column headers) and adding a value for weight (was left
>blank on all entries). If I upload my new products.txt and restart mv will
>it blow up? I tried to edit the product.txt it in Access but got some kind
>of isam error. I am not using sql and the mv version is 4.0 on SuSE Linux
>server.
>
>Thanks for any help!
>
>David
>
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