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Re: BrickBank ! (was Re: BrickBay Enhancement )
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lugnet.market.services
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:19:03 GMT
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Eric McCarthy wrote:
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> Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
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> > "D. Jezek" wrote:
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> > > On a side note, is there anyone who would like to mass upload their wanted
> > > list the way that the current mass upload of inventory works?
> > > http://www.brickbay.com/invXML.asp
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> > I checked out the way it works last weekend to upload some stuff, but found
> > it to be very frustrating because of all the tags needed for it... would it
> > perhaps be possible to use a .csv spreadsheet file instead (that way it
> > stays OS independant, I'm using Linux :-) with lugnet partref, amount,
> > color, price for instance?
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> Why do you say it is OS-dependent? Whatever OS you are running,
> you still need to generate the same text. If you do so by writing
> a simple Perl script that massages your csv file into the correct
> format, what difference does it make whether the Perl script
> runs on Linux or MSWin?
Since so far some "advanced" features are for Windows users only (Excel
sales list for instance) I mentioned it, since all these neat things simply
don't work for me. I also had some problems browsing the site, although most
of those are gone now.
The problem with the current system, as I mentioned is that it's too much
work... if I only had the skills to program some perl script to convert a
.csv file to XML I'd have done it already. However I have very little
experience in perl and virtually no time to learn it :-( And it would mean
that for each OS type a different interpreter would have to be written,
since perl for Windows appears to be too limited for most things at the
moment... OTOH csv files are easy to make, easy to process and use almost no
extra codes, keeping the filesize small. Each OS has excellent software to
process csv files, since it's all plain ASCII.
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| (...) Try star office on Linux. It seems to handle Excel and Word docs for me on Solaris, so it probably does on Linux too. (...) This particular transformation looks trivial. I bet you could learn enough Perl to do it in less than an hour. (...) I (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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| (...) Why do you say it is OS-dependent? Whatever OS you are running, you still need to generate the same text. If you do so by writing a simple Perl script that massages your csv file into the correct format, what difference does it make whether (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.services)
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