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At 10 NOV 1997 09:55:12AM Allison Watanabe wrote:

Remember the old AREV ASCII Bond, Does anyone know if OpenInsight supports ASCII Bonds or if OpenInsight has it's own verions of an "ASCII Bond" Thanks, Allison [email protected]

At 11 NOV 1997 12:55PM Blaise (Revelation) wrote:

Hello Allison,

Have you tried connecting to the ASCII file with a Text ODBC driver?

-Blaise

At 12 NOV 1997 02:34PM Cameron Revelation wrote:

Allison Watanabe,

Remember the old AREV ASCII Bond, Does anyone know if OpenInsight supports ASCII Bonds or if OpenInsight has it's own verions of an "ASCII Bond" Thanks, Allison [email protected]

I don't think OpenInsight includes the ASCII bond. You have a couple of other options:
There is an tool for importing ASCII data. It is called IMPORT_ASCII. From the command line, type
RUN START_WINDOW "IMPORT_ASCII"
.
Using the Data Warehousing feature with an ASCII ODBC driver, you can export data to an ASCII file.
Using the Client Server workspace's Query Window with an ASCII ODBC driver, you can directly select, update, insert, and delete data from/to the ASCII file using SQL commands.
Using the Copy_Row_To_OS and Copy_OS_To_Row, you can copy individual records out to OS files.
Using BASIC+, you can programmatically enumerate, create, read, write, copy, rename, move, and delete OS files.
Cameron Purdy

[email protected]

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