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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Scott Klement
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Forgive me, but... if you're opening the file in
Notepad and then doing a SAVE AS, then the
question isn't really about your program, is it?
I believe it still is about his program, or possibly your copybook.
It looks to me as though he is using the behavior under Notepad as
simply further illustration of what he's observing, not (necessarily)
actual workflow. It's a common diagnostic technique. Whenever
someone says, for example, "my CSV data doesn't look right in Excel",
one of the first things to ask is "OK, what does your data look like
when you open the CSV in Notepad?". It doesn't mean we actually want
them to work with the data in Notepad.
Whenever someone tells me "this is what I'm seeing in Notepad", I
treat it as "here's another symptom that might help you diagnose my
problem". Maybe it turns out to be irrelevant, but they are just
trying to give as much information as they can. (If they already knew
*exactly* what was relevant and what was not, there is a good chance
they don't need to come to us for help in the first place.)
John
midrange.com
