>Thanks for your reply.
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>Actually, I just finished the preliminary version of the AmEx application. It works well and the accounting people love it. It does in about three minutes what used to take them about three hours to do.
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>All we have to do is copy the contents of the AmEx disk(s) to a certain directory, click on Import Data and then click on Produce Reports.
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>Ain't automation great?

Sounds great! Another idea is using WAN systems instead of diskette but this approach is costly...

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>- Gerry
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>>>Up until a month ago, our accounting department has been manually cutting and pasting a large (>175 pages) American Express billing statement for distribution to our employees so they can verify data therein.
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>>>I happened to notice this going on and asked if AmEx could supply us with a data diskette, instead. They've begun sending the diskette each month (in addition to their hard copy statement). All the files are in comma-delimited ASCII files.
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>>>I've begun putting together an application to import and report on the data from these disks. Has anyone out there already put something together? If so, please let me know so I don't have to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. I'm not asking for code, just a heads-up for any 'weirdness' in their data.
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>>>Thanks!
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>>Check-it out on IMPORT & EXPORT features of VFP. It simplifies conversion of foreign data into native VFP...