OFFICE CHOICE DATA IMPORT

Their data is in some sql flat file database and comes with dos apps to extract it with.

Stock import:

To generate the data use this command:

sql.exe "select code,sup_code,c_code,name,per,sg_code,n_cost,on_h,lpo_date,lm_date,lr_date,price from stock;" > stock.txt

now because this program is from 1991 the date format totally screws up with 2000+ dates and needs to be fixed because it it frells the fixed width formatting and I noticed dates and data would be chopped off when importing to excel, anyways this simple command fixes dates in teh format of mm/dd/1yy to become mm/dd/yy

cat stock.txt | sed 's/\([0-9][0-9]\/[0-9][0-9]\/\)1\([0-9][0-9]\)/\1\2/g' > stockdatefixed.txt

Inside stock.txt is hopefully data for all those fields in fixed with format. However since this data and programs are from 1991 the dates are all fubared and so stuff for say 26th july 2006 will come out in teh format, 07/26/106, this also frells with the fixed with output so you need to manually adjust the headings to make them align before trying to open it with excel.