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RE: RE: RE: [ECS] MS Outlook and ECS J Gary Mull Wed, 06 Dec 2000 10:20:19 -0500

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I have a log file that the outside temp sensor logs to every time the temp
changes.  An Access file was written such that it pulls in the low, high
and present temp for each day.  You first indicate the day you wish and
then the data is pulled from the temp file which ECS created.



At 10:07 AM 12/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I haven't recently looked into writing data to text files in a long while,
>but couldn't you use ECS to create a CSV (comma separated value) text file
>that Access could import?
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>--David
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:58 AM
>To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>Subject: Re: RE: RE: [ECS] MS Outlook and ECS
>
>
>O.K. well, what I am trying to do really is have ECS talk to other programs
>to get it's data.  I would like to have ECS be able to look into an msaccess
>table and get the data, or put data in.  This would let us store information
>for temperatures, or names and addresses, or just about anything.  AND this
>would let us have a nice data input GUI that other "non techies" in the
>family could use.  What would any of you recommend?    OR is there just not
>an interface method for talking some generic data transfer to other
>programs.?  I know that now, almost all the Microsoft products can get data
>from each other, so I thought there MUST be some simple way of doing this?
>
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