| From: | Thomas Good <tomg(at)q8(dot)nrnet(dot)org> |
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| To: | Leslie Johnson - Contractor <ljohnson(at)arl(dot)army(dot)mil> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: A very novice question about ascii files |
| Date: | 2000-09-08 20:42:22 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.3.96.1000908164131.1330B-100000@q8.nrnet.org |
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Leslie Johnson - Contractor wrote:
>
> I guess you've looked a little at these files. Do they
> look like fixed format or delimited files? I.e., is the first
> field always columns 1-N, the second, N+1 to M, ...
>
> Actually, I'm not sure because I'm having to download them right now and
> look at them in notepad and I'm sure that's messing it up (for some reason
> VI doesn't seem to be working). They're in columns with column
> headings...granted they're wrapped around a little strangely. Maybe
> somebody out there knows how to change it either way?
vi usually has a file size limit...if you have mc (midnight commander)
you can peek at them that way (F3)...
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