Re: 0.15.6!!

["Chad S. Lauritsen" <csl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, me too... would you be willing to provide a link to your asdbget utility?

Sean Porterfield wrote:

Can Excel import XML?  I hacked a utility called asdbget which uses FTP and

> some AS/400 specific magic to retreive files from the 400 and put translate
> them in to ASCII XML format (which has a header describing the complete
> file layout).
>
> The theory is that you could pipe it to a quick hack of a perl script using
> XML::Parser that could translate it into any other format.
>
> I don't know anything about XML (yet?) but I'm extremely interested in your
> AS400 magic!  I'd really like to be able to use ODBC to get data from AS/400
> files.  I don't always need to get the whole file (although a lot of times,
> I do need the whole file or can work with it if I do get the whole file.)
>
> I'm about to embark on a project where I'll need to update a database on
> Linux periodically with data from the AS/400.  Obviously I need an automatic
> way of doing this.  I know this isn't exactly on topic (well, not even close
> anymore, I guess...)  Anyone doing this?  Is there an appropriate forum for
> this discussion?
>
> TIA!
>
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