[steering] Moving Forward

[Dean Mah]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:57:24AM -0800, .jeff wrote:

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> > I provided John with an Oracle export file already.  If
> > there's a different format that you want the data
> > exported in, let me know and I can try it.  The problem
> > with a CSV file is embedded commas and embedded single-
> > and double-quotes.  It's also likely that people have
> > embedded tabs into articles.  If you could take a file
> > separated by a control character, e.g., CTRL-V, that
> > might work better.
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>
> if the export file is available for download somewhere, i'll take a
> peek at that.  if that doesn't work out, i'd like to investigate the
> use of a control character delimited file.  we'd need to look at a
> control character combination to represent columns and one for rows
> both though.

The export file can be grabbed at:

   http://members.evolt.org/dmah/expdat.dmp (128MB)

This is an Oracle Export binary file so I don't know if you'll have
much luck with it unless you have the tools to read it.

Let me know when you have it so that I can delete it.

Dean