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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not cute, true. A spooled file is not data. It's a picture of your data.
But if you have a picture of the data you need, it's as good as the
data itself, or can be made to be as good as the data itself. If I
need an account number, I can ultimately use a photograph of that
account number, or that account number stored in an RPG variable, or
in an Excel file, or as sound waves encoded and passed through
telephone lines.
Not all forms are equally convenient or high-fidelity. But they're serviceable.
All I'm saying is that if you need YOUR ACTUAL BROTHER for something,
then a picture of him, or even a life-sized wax model of him, is not
going to cut it for most purposes. And it's not like you can convert
the photograph of a person into an actual person. But you absolutely
can convert printed-out representations of data into what you're
calling "actual" data. Heck, a spooled file is even one better than
the printout, because it's still in electronic form! You don't even
need an optical scanner (or human eyes) to read it!
John Y.
midrange.com
