Re: Database Conversion questions??

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br>]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, John Foster wrote:

> 
> system, however when I select the delimiter (tab) and export it, the
> file that is ported to Linux has extra visible quotation {"xxxxxx"}
> marks around each field. If there are extra not visible line controls

maybe you can use a binary editor to see the control fields it's puting in
your file. (vim -b your_file)

I also think the dos2unix utility might solve your problem.


> that Linux/Minivend is not expecting, this may be causing the problem
> with the search engine. I will try your suggestion about stripping the
> DOS file. Many thanks for the idea.
> 

[]s,
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