data from 5mx back to 3a?

[Willem Bakker]

Does anybody know to transfer a Series 5mx DATA-fite back to be used on a
series 3a?

Thanks in advance for your reply!

Willem Bakker (NL)

[R. R.]

You will have to convert (if available) your 5mx files to PC format. Then
from PC format to 3x format. Get ready for a challange.

Richard

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[JF Mezei]

"R. R." wrote:
>
> You will have to convert (if available) your 5mx files to PC format. Then
> from PC format to 3x format. Get ready for a challange.

Actually, the challenge is not that bad. The Series 5 is capable of exporting
DATA files in tab delimited format which you can then transfer without
conversion to the series 3 and import. You will however have to first define
the fields manually on the series 3.

DATA was the only application on the series 5 with import/export capabilities built-in.

Note that you will have to deal with some issues such as:
-on the series 3 no field can exceed 255 characters. (eg: your memo fields on
the series 5 will have to be truncated to 255, or split into multiple fields.)

-the "new line" character inside a field on the series 5 is a <ctrl-F> for
DATA files. But for the Series 3, it is a 0x15 (<CTRL> U). So in the tab
delimited file you export from the Series 5, you should change all <CTRL> F>
to <CTRL-U>.

Note that if the file contains a single field such as "Memo:", you can just
replace the <CTRL-F> with a field separator (TAB). Similarly, if you have very
large memo fields, you can split them into multiple fields by inserting the
TAB character.

[John Crook]

The approach is to export the data file using tabs as the separator with
"none" as text qualifier. Entry separator is end of line.

Copy to PC and file can be opened by PSIDATA. May be able to copy to S3
without any other work.

John Crook

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