Re: Database Import

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Robert:

 As I understand you, what you are recommending is to convert the
 DataPerfect file to a WordPerfect file, and convert that file to
 XY4. Yes, I thought of that, and it makes good sense. That amounts
 to importing a text file. And I am sure that that will work, since
 I have done it a number of times, ...maybe not quite by starting out
 with a DataPerfect database file, but I am sure you are right in
 saying that it will work.

 I was trying to take advantage of what I thought was a separate fea-
 ture from importing straight text. You see, I noticed, when looking at
 the Help menu, under Database, and then under More detail, that what
 is described as single entries in a database, that meet certain
 conditions, can be imported in a XY4 file rather than the whole
 database. It was that that I was trying to take advantage of when I
 posed the question initially. In short what I was trying to do what
 provide XY4 with an Ibidem-like feature.

 Maybe the solution to this is to convert the DataPerfect bibliography
 database that I have to a XY4 file, using the procedure you recommend,
 and then calling that file FISHOUT.xxx, and then using the Fishout
 macro from U2. This just occurred to me. ...

 M. W. Poirier

 P.S.: Yes you are also right, I do have access to NB4.5a (DOS), ...not
 the Windows version. I am a DOS person through and through.

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Robert Holmgren wrote:

> ** Reply to message from "M.W. Poirier"  on Mon, 08
> Dec 2003 08:43:08 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> > Sorry about that but I did not realize that it made a difference
> >  or that it would affect whether or not I obtained a database
> >  dialogue box. ;-)
>
> Right, but you need to use a specific filter to import it, don't you? Have you
> successfully imported DataPerfect bases in the past, and now suddenly it
> doesn't work? Or never before? I've never imported any database of any type
> into XyWrite, so I don't know what I'm talking about; but there exist Word4Word
> filters for dBase III and IV, and also for Excel 2|3 and Lotus spreadsheets.
> Of course, there are WordPerfect 4, 5, and 6 filters -- and DataPerfect is a
> companion to WordPerfect, isn't it? Maybe you could save your database as a
> WordPerfect text file, and then import it that way? You're an NB user, aren't
> you? Probably NB has newer WordPerfect filters, so once you converted the db,
> you could work on it in XyWrite, if that's your preference. Otherwise grab the
> W4W filters for WP at xywrite.com (I think Brian has the "Hungarian" filter for
> WP 6).
>
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> Robert Holmgren
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