Re: CL_Ideas received on Writing to a file from an ela

[Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:54 AM -0500 7/17/99, Jay Mackro wrote:

>Bob Fulks had a different suggestion
>
> >Why not just write to the print log. You can then "print" the print
> >log to a "generic character printer" but assign the printer to a
> >file. This will allow you to see the print log as it is running to
> >make sure everything is OK then save it if it looks OK.
> >You might want to clear the print log before your run also.
>
>This idea worked very well.  I had no idea you could configure
>a printer in Win95 as "generic text only", but you can.  Then,
>when you send to this "printer", you can specify a file name.
>The only weirdness in this was that the resulting file had a
>bunch of rows containing odd characters as its first several
>lines  - I assume this results from the printlog's odd habit
>of pushing all the text to the bottom, rather than starting at the
>top.   Anyhow, these rows could be easily deleted in Excel,
>the columns added, and my system results tabulated.



You can create a separate column for the junk characters by adding a 
comma  (",") to the beginning of each line. This makes it easy to 
avoid importing the column containing those characters.

Bob