Re[2]: Electors

     Linda,
     Re: your spreadsheet question:  Just about any spreadsheet or database 
     program will accept input (and will be able to produce output) in one 
     of two formats, comma separated text (CSV, in the parlance) or tab 
     separated text, where the comma or the tab separates each field.  
     Spaces don't work because there are frequently spaces within the data 
     in the field.  Some database and spreadsheet programs, when they 
     output the data, also put quotes around each data field, for clarity.
     
     Also, your "drivers" are the bits of code that "drive" peripheral 
     devices like printers.  You need specific drivers for specific device; 
      each one is just a little bit different...
     
     Stephanie Markham, [mostly lurking ;) ]
     


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Subject: Re: Electors
Author:  PC:LMann76543@aol.com at INTERNET
Date:    8/26/96 6:17 AM


In a message dated 96-08-25 23:27:29 EDT, you write:
     
>I agree. This is a great idea. Annette from Kentucky. Mostly just lurking & 
>enjoying it immensely.
>>> a 'veto' vote for
>>> Dykes medal contenders based exclusively on garden performance.....  
>>> column for 'have you grown it in your garden for more than one year' (if 
>> not,
>>> you can't veto), 'how do you rank it's reliability and growth in your 
>> garden
>>> - 1 = dead or rots, 2= average, 3 = better than average'.  Any contender 
>> that
>>> shows a consistent pattern of '1's outside its region of origin gets 
>> vetoed.
>>
>>Great Idea Linda - Put some names up on the list and we'll vote...DO 
>>IT....
     
I haven't forgotten - I had to buy a replacement computer and haven't gotten 
all it's parts working yet - to save a few bucks I didn't get it with any 
software loaded, although they had to put DOS on it to make sure it worked, 
so I still have a box of miscellaneous diskettes with mysterious labels on 
them related to 'drivers', whatever those are, plus all my old data files and 
other software to work on.  I don't have any kind of data 
management/spreadsheet software so will have to do this with a word processor 
and sort function, but first, I have to add dates of introduction.
 So....Looking to the future, anybody know if there are standard delimiters
between data fields compatible with most spreadsheet/data management software 
(space, comma, tab??) used in importing text files? - not exactly an iris 
question but it's for my iris info.
     
Linda Mann lmann76543@aol.com east TN USA
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