>>Ain't automation great?
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>Sounds great! Another idea is using WAN systems instead of diskette but this approach is costly...
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I'm not sure you understand what's going on here, Jess. We get a floppy each month from American Express with that month's charge detail data. The files they send are in comma-delimited format.

All I had to do was APPEND the files to existing tables (they sent me good docs with table format specs in them), massage the data a little, and print reports for our corporate AmEx cardmembers to use in reconciling their accounts.

We would not be able to contact AmEx directly, so a WAN is not even in the picture for this exercise.

- Gerry