Post #285,675
5/29/07 9:43:33 AM
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Access is such a pile of crap
Access can't import "VIA_FEB07.smt" because files that contain text must end in .txt, .csv, .tab or .asc. Because as you know, a file can only accessed according to the type indicated by it's extension. There is no way, even at the OS level, to just open the file as a binary stream and translate it according to a specification provided by the user.
And it can't import "VIA_FEB07.smt.txt", because Microsoft's programmers apparently couldn't handle the complexity involved in a file name with multiple periods.
Festering pile of crap.
Jay
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Post #285,678
5/29/07 10:00:34 AM
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Double crap
And it can't import "VIABOS_VIACHA_VIACHI_VIACLV_VIACOL_VIADC_VIADET_VIAKC_VIAMED_VIANY_VIATX_FEB07_SBS-rcvd5-24-07.txt". Because Access can't import files with names longer then 64 characters.
Jay
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Post #285,683
5/29/07 10:24:50 AM
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Well, clearly...
The problem is a PEBKAC issue. Get with the program, Jay. Sheesh.
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Post #285,792
5/30/07 9:41:21 AM
5/30/07 9:42:39 AM
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'Course not!
Wouldn't want a member of the Only True Office Suite to be compatible with, and follow the rules of, the Only True Operating System that it Only runs on, now would we? Such a thing would imply Design, and that was outlawed at Micros~1 at about the same time Bob showed up...
[Edit: BTW, what's a PEBKAC?]
jb4
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Edited by jb4
May 30, 2007, 09:42:39 AM EDT
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Post #285,815
5/30/07 10:41:48 AM
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Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
by far the most common cause of computer fuckups.
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Post #285,816
5/30/07 10:41:58 AM
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Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
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Post #285,831
5/30/07 12:07:41 PM
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Thank you both
Shoulda known...
jb4
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Post #285,837
5/30/07 1:28:28 PM
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There's also the Eye Dee Ten Tee error.
or ID10T
:)
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Post #285,839
5/30/07 1:46:08 PM
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My fav is the El Knock error
Loose Nut On Keyboard
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Post #285,841
5/30/07 1:51:35 PM
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My Fav: IO Error.
Idiot Operator.
Or a close second: SU Error
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Post #286,041
6/1/07 2:01:46 PM
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The BDU has failed.
Brain Dead User.
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #287,086
6/16/07 1:43:41 AM
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Now you know why I miss XBase
Xbase was not designed by OS-specific mouse-lovers. I have to use MS-Access almost every day, and it constantly reminds me why XBase is far better even though its 30 years old.
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Post #288,848
7/13/07 9:03:54 AM
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Will it import VIA_FEB07.txt
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