Microsoft KB Archive/20792

Hints, Suggestions for Using CONVERTD PSS ID Number: Q20792 Article last modified on 04-11-1988 PSS database name: D_MPlan

2.x

MS-DOS

Summary: CONVERTD can handle approximately 8,000 data entries in conversion, regardless of how the data is entered. A file may have 100 rows x 80 columns, 50 rows x 160 columns, etc.; it must be kept within about 8,000 total fields. CONVERTD determines the field type by the first character in the record. A field beginning with a number, e.g. an address, will have to be in quotation marks for proper conversion and to prevent the program from hanging up in an endless loop or getting errors. ASCII files need to have an End of File marker (^Z) to avoid an endless loop during conversion. CONVERTD will not accept spaces as a delimiter; it will most likely remove the spaces and create one large number when converted. To “safely” run CONVERTD, make a copy of CONVERTD and the file to be converted in the same subdirectory or on the same floppy disk.

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