Importing/exporting data with carriage returns (I Think)

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On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 02:36:05PM -0400, Mike Fedkiw thus spoke:
>    I appreciate all the help I've been able to get from people replying to
>    my posts on here. Please understand though, I only write a few things
>    in filepro for my own company. So making statements like this
> Just pretend I never said anything which might actually help you, that all
> you will ever have or use are tools to which you've already been exposed,
> and that you don't need to do any research of moderate depth on your own in
> order to solve -your- problems.
> 
>    I don't think is very fair and certainly not helpful in any way. If I
>    have no clue what all this Linux, perl, tr, sed, \001, \007 are why not
>    try and help me out, I thought that was what this was for???

I -did- try to help you out.  It was apparently beyond your understanding.
Going further than that exceeds the scope of what I'm willing to do gratis
on this list.  I'm available for contract at my normal hourly rates, if you
really want/need an in-depth explanation from the ground up.

That's one of the things that really pisses me off about certain
communities.  "Oh, my tools let me do -wonders- without having to really
understand anything about what I'm doing, the principles involved, or the
systems upon which I run!"  So they're suddenly God, because they can
'program' without any formal education.  Then they hit a stumbling block,
and expect the answer to be delivered in full, pressed, starched, polished,
and spit-shined, on a silver platter, gratis.

NO.

Some of us have spent decades building our knowledge base, doing our own
researh, etc.  Nobody is -entitled- to our knowledge or our work for free.
If we choose to give it, that's our choice.  The extent to which we are
willing to give it in a venue like this is -our- choce.  People are -not-
at liberty to dictate the terms of our benevolence unless they're handing
us a paycheque, thank you very much.

You probably shouldn't have crossed the line into 'hinting' that I should
be -more- helpful, when I was already concisely helpful in the first place.
You don't have that right unless it's your time, on your dime.  It's my
frakking -weekend-, and I tried to help you anyway.  Then you want to bitch
because you don't understand what I said, and take exception to me saying,
"Y'know what?  More trouble than it's worth during my free time, just
forget it."  No good deed goes unpunished, lemme tellya.

This is why we can't have nice things.

/rant

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