[Babase] More PsionLoad Questions
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Mon Jun 18 12:40:01 EDT 2007
On 06/18/2007 10:46:23 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
> Hey Karl,
> While uploading yesterday, Leah and I came up with a new list of
> questions, comments, concerns about Psion load. See below.
> 9. Lastly, a WWWdiff question, in reference to the error we found
> where the one cell had a space after the sname, is it possible to
> tell the program to only read the first 3 spots in each cell,
> avoiding that problem?
Weeeel... Again, anything's possible.
I'd sooner not mess with it. It is clear from the output
that there's an error, which is the main goal. And I've
documented how to tell what's going on so it shouldn't
be a mystery to somebody using the program.
IMO it'd make the program non-trivially more complicated,
both from the technical side and from the usage side
and wouldn't be worth it.
I _could_ make the upload program(s) read only the first 3 characters
of the data in the uploaded column. But I don't think it's a
really good idea to have an upload program modifying the data
unless there's real productivity benefit.
So that's my take. Feel free to talk amongst yourselves
and decide differently.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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