Author Archives: PeterS

4D can read fixed length data

hard to believe after years of years of parsing text myself to get the records into my database, I finally discovered, there is an option to import fixedlength data into 4D by using the build in import-editor:
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If only the interface of the import-editor wouldn’t scramble already selected parameters much to often or preloading a saved import-station would really load well before importing by code.

Unix’s Revenge

… Google, Apple, HP, RIM, Samsung and Nokia are all now betting heavily on Unix or Unix-like implementations. The success is so overwhelming that there are really only two hold-outs: Microsoft and the rapidly depreciating Symbian. …