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On Dec 19, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Joshua Rodman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:22:40PM -0800, > jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote: >> 2) Create the file write-only, and cross your fingers. > > Duh. I really meant read-only here. Clearly you were confused following the long discussion of everyone's favorite write-only language. small enough obhate: MS Access, despite seeming to accept the Windows concept of "regionalization," will not accept, say, "10,00" even though it's a perfectly cromulent number in French if the database was created in English. Okay, fine, whatever; your snail-eating, ruffle-wearing virgules aren't welcome here. The really hateful part is once you've clicked in a number field, it tells you you're fucked before you even type anything. And then the helpful and repetitive error messages from Jet take over until you can manage to kick the power cord out of the wall. I would go on about company policies that non-windows systems are beyond the pale and it will take another year before they even "certify" a 64-bit windows, but that belongs on a different hate list. Pat yes, it might be VBA and it might be Jet; I don't care enough to narrow it down
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