Hi All A little bit off topic but hope you don't mind ! Just thought some of you might like to know about "CSVEd" .... a CSV Editor which allows for all sorts of manipulation of CSV data including producing HTML files etc. And It's FREE !! Check it out at http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/index.html Regards Bill -----Original Message----- From: gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gencmp-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Steve Hayes Sent: 09 January 2013 05:23 To: gencmp@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Reading data from old programs [was: Re: County record offices online] On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:30:34 -0500, Keith Nuttle <Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >On 1/8/2013 8:24 AM, Steve Hayes wrote: >> Old sequential access BASIC files are dead easy -- you can import them into a >> spreadsheet "as is" -- in fact for some purposes of repetitive data entry, >> like transcribing parish registers, it might be a lot easier to design a BASIC >> front end than to try to enter it into a spreadsheet. >> >> >If you ever find a good front end that uses a spreadsheet for its >database please post it. > >I grew up on dBase where you could look at the data in the form format >or spreadsheet format, I would love to find a front end where I could >look at my speadsheet data in the form format. It is much easier to look >at one row in a form presentation that to try to trace it in the >spreadsheet format. I was referring there specifically to data entry. Sequential BASIC databases store their data as comma-separated values (CSV), which just about any spreadsheet can easily import. To use such a program to *read* spreadsheet data, you'd have to export it as CSV first. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GENCMP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message