MAS 90 interface

[GCC Consulting]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Brian K. White
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 7:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: MAS 90 interface
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GCC Consulting" <gcc at optonline.net>
> To: "Filepro 2 List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 4:25 PM
> Subject: MAS 90 interface
> 
> 
> > Has anybody interfaced fp with MAS 90?
> >
> > This can either be getting data from or pushing data to.
> 
> We do this at a few sites, though I don't know to what extent exactly.
> All I know is I set up some facetwin shares on the unix boxes 
> and in some 
> cases made scripts that accessed windows shares, and some 
> cron jobs to run 
> import/export reports and move csv files back and forth and 
> wrote template 
> fp code for importing and exporting csv files. Someone else 
> here did the fp 
> code for actually dealing with the data and I don't know the 
> tiniest thing 
> about mas90 itself so I don't know how the csv files are 
> imported, exported, 
> nor how the data is used on that end.
> 
> I can describe in more detail how to set up the shares so the windows 
> machine can get at the files, or vice-versa how to have the 
> unix box get at 
> files on the windows box, and how to import & export csv 
> files with rreport 
> and how to put it all into cron jobs and make it 
> multi-user/multi-session/multi-qualifier safe etc... But I 
> think what you 
> mostly need is mas90 expertise.
> 
> The accountant who knows mas90 that worked on this with us at 
> a few sites 
> is:
> John Veglia
> jveglia at aol.com
> 
> Not knowing the first thing about either mas90 or accounting 
> myself, I don't 
> know if he's a guru or a hack, only that he's a nice guy, 
> conscientious, and 
> worked on this with us at a few sites and the customers seemed happy.
> 
> Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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Brian,

My client who will need this will be running everything on a windows box.

Thanks for the response.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting