[Dxbase] version differences

Tue Jul 25 17:31:30 EDT 2006

Hi Ron,
I don't think we would ever consider creating a .txt file for users to edit. 
The liklihood that somebody would mistype something is so great and the 
potential harm so high, that it's just not reasonable. But, we would be 
willing to adjust our enhancement priority work and shift gears toward 
working on an addition to DXB Utility that would allow someone to download a 
refdata.mdb from someone else and have their own prefix related tables 
replaced by what was contained in the downloaded version.
Now I do NOT want to cover up the reflector with more "me too" posts etc.... 
but I do need to have a feel for how many folks might consider upgrading to 
2007 if we went to the trouble to do this kind of thing. Obviously, we need 
to understand the majority opinion and importance before we redirect our 
programming efforts. We've been very hard at work on development for 
version 2007 and had some things underway, but if the majority of our 
customers want this prefix import capability and there are volunteers who 
will maintain a master on their website, then we are willing to modify our 
direction. We'd like a simple direct email to our own email address, not 
the reflector to tell us the answer to the following question:
Would the ability to overwrite your own Primary and Alias prefix table with 
those that you obtained from someone else be a feature important enough for 
you to consider upgrading to the next version?.
Thanks,
Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Stordahl" <ron.stordahl at digikey.com>
To: "FireBrick" <w9ol at billnjudy.com>
Cc: "DXBase List" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] version differences
> One way to deal with this would be for Jack to develop a program which 
> would allow you to export/import from refdata.mdb the various tables in a 
> format that could be readily edited with notepad. If this were done the 
> changes could be posted as files for all to use. Yes it would be extra 
> work....for Jack.
> Ron, N5IN
>> FireBrick wrote:
>> As I stated in a reply to someone asking for 'downloadable' country files 
>> like the contest programs use.
>>>> Due to many users with different versions of DXBase, this may be 
>> insurmountable.
>>>> A refdata.mdb and a country.dat are two different animals.
>> In fact so different, I can't think of a fitting analogy.
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