Cobol - Re: Layout Hell.: leave it

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Re: Layout Hell.: leave it

Richard

2004-07-23, 8:55 pm

Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote

> the best of motives but they missed the point, which was that she
> doesn't care about the details, she just wants to convert the file. And
> the easiest way to do it is to write a "Quick & Dirty" program to create
> a flat or CSV file to read into Access or whatever it si she needs.

Actually, you have this completely inverted. According to what has
been posted by her, she does have a program that appently will do the
task and all that she needs, or what she says she needs, is 'the
details' of what the layout is to tell the program.

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