Re: [mv] product.txt

["David Bronson" <dbron@roman.net>]

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Thanks Eric,

Excel behaved pretty well and didn't seem to add characters. I uploaded and
the file actually worked first time! Yea for minvend.

I did save it on the server and locally before experimenting.

DB
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Paul <epaul@spellbook.net>
To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [mv] product.txt


> ******    message to minivend-users from 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>     ******
> >
> >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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