Importing/exporting data with carriage returns (I Think)

[Fairlight]

Also, my keyboard is acting up again and dropping letters.  I should
probably replace it with the spare I bought a year ago for this
eventuality.  However, it's the weekend, and I can't be arsed.

Apologies for the typos.  I was too pissed off to proofread more
thoroughly.

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On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 02:47:54PM -0400, Fairlight via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 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
> 
> mark->
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