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Author Re: Diagnosing the USCF
Mike Nolan

2004-12-27, 5:45 pm

"irvin" <noone@none.com> writes:
quote:

>Thanks, Mike, for the expanded information. The advantage of a comma or
>tab-delimited format is that they are not proprietary formats, so, it's much
>easier to interface with other software/frameworks.


I don't consider .DBF proprietary, the format standard is published and
well-known, PHP can read and write .DBF formats, I suspect other
languages can too.

And as I said before, if someone's got a program that can create a
tab-delimited file (which would be my first choice for the next format
to support), I'd LOVE to hear from that person. But with the many things
that still have to be done, I don't really feel it is productive for me
to spend a day or two writing that code if there isn't anyone ready to
utilize it yet, if only because I won't have any data to test my code with.
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Mike Nolan
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