Hello Pete,

yes I do use PostalSoft produc suite,
I use ACE and Presort. for merge purge we use Double Take from the
peoplesmith guys, nice little program, very fast with fox tables
I have done merge purges of tables of 900k with it and very impressed
with the results.
For laser printing we use Pres from Prinsoft.com a nice layout program
for the Oce laser continous and sheet feed laser machines.

I have used Postal Soft with VFP 6 and create some nice perl scripts (on windows) to automate the creation of the ACE and PST files that Postal Soft needs out of a txt file that I call kitlist.txt

and then through a bat file I run all of my apps and even I do north south
splits.

you can email me privately for more info at maor71@onebox.com


and how is the direct mail field there in NY ?

Here in CA , Los Angeles area is a very busy cycle these days ..

let me know

mark oliva



>PostalSoft makes apps that verify postal details.
>PWACE looks at addresses and verifies good addresses and flags bad.
>MERGE/PURGE looks for duplicates between table(s) to avoid duplicate mailing.
>PRESORT adds proper zip+4, creates tray labels, bundle number, prices denpending on type of mail being checked.
>
>PrintNet from GMC is a program similar(?) to Quark Xpress. It uses tables to change variable values inside its files. It produces files that can be used by the large Xerox printers.
>
>
>>Hi Pete,
>>What is Postalsoft and PrintNet?
>>
>>If you are looking to convert a old FPW2.x to VFP7 you are in for a good ride.
>>I suggest you use a framework and salvage the old code in it.
>>This way you will have a good application that will work with VFP7.
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>We are a Direct Mail Printing firm. We're just switching from FPW2.6a to VFP7 and are having more than a few problems.
>>>
>>>Are there any UT people out there using ACE, PRESORT, MERGE/PURGE from PostalSoft that could let me know how to properly integrate PostalSoft into the VFP environment. The other programmers here are very unhappy about having to learn a totally new product and are very concerned about any interactions that may have changed. Are there any pitfalls out there? Are there any procedures we have to follow? Will PostalSoft take the VFP7 files directly or do we have to convert back to FPW2? Is there a good way to run the PostalSoft programs from VFP that don't pass thru DOS?
>>>
>>>All of the above questions also apply to PrintNet from GMC. In particular getting PrintLayout to accept VFP files without having to go thru several conversion steps?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>Pete