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thajeremy said:
ok...next time...the data will be in no certian order....your little script will have to figure out what goes where.... :p
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As long as they are separated by line breaks, this script would almost do it even if the field order were randomly permuted. It's a pretty dumb script. Now if you told me that the data might be in the line after the field name, the same line as the field name, or the line before the field name, depending on whether there was a colon after the field name or not, that would be more difficult....

For an added challenge, make some of the field names optional, make the names arbitrary (field1, field2, etc.), and make the interpretation of the field names dependent on whether the previous field was populated or not, e.g. a blank field4 (address line 2) results in the next field, field5, being an added "Company Name" field. Otherwise, field5 is city.

And that's the sort of crap I have to put up with when parsing C/C++/ObjC source code....
 
dgatwood said:
As long as they are separated by line breaks, this script would almost do it even if the field order were randomly permuted. It's a pretty dumb script. Now if you told me that the data might be in the line after the field name, the same line as the field name, or the line before the field name, depending on whether there was a colon after the field name or not, that would be more difficult....

For an added challenge, make some of the field names optional, make the names arbitrary (field1, field2, etc.), and make the interpretation of the field names dependent on whether the previous field was populated or not, e.g. a blank field4 (address line 2) results in the next field, field5, being an added "Company Name" field. Otherwise, field5 is city.

And that's the sort of crap I have to put up with when parsing C/C++/ObjC source code....
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I haven't returned to Ontario yet, but I am curious how you handeled the names that had only their E-dress and no ship-dress or phone number?
 
antichef said:
cool!! but what about...
seaserpents.jpg

(knock on driftwood :D)
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Best post in this thread ....ever!
 
I tried importing that CSV directly into my address book, but there were errors. Fed Ex recommends sending the file to them and let them do it. Thats what I did and am waiting for their reply
 
chance said:
I haven't returned to Ontario yet, but I am curious how you handeled the names that had only their E-dress and no ship-dress or phone number?
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I only parsed blocks that actually contained the field names (e.g. Salutation:, First Name:, etc.). Therefore, all entries where those field names were missing were simply ignored and aren't in the CSV file I sent you.
 
dgatwood said:
I only parsed blocks that actually contained the field names (e.g. Salutation:, First Name:, etc.). Therefore, all entries where those field names were missing were simply ignored and aren't in the CSV file I sent you.
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OK cool. I think I posted enough times to "up-date your shipping info". Those people will get the hint somewhere along the way. If time permits, I will send them E-mails. I do know that some are from forums I've never even heard of much less participate in. I can't send mass mails through the user console and I just gathered all the paid E-dresses and will send a mass mail via Outlook. I'll have to do it in several mailings because of the E-mail limit for each send.
 
New Thread for TNC Product Reviews? PLEASE???

I hope that once we actually get these goodies and start putting them through their paces, we can post our product reviews in a new thread.

It'll be hard leafing through this one, trying to find the exact page where the logistics end and the ecstatics begin.

Thanks,
3rd&4thT
 
3rd&4thT said:
I hope that once we actually get these goodies and start putting them through their paces, we can post our product reviews in a new thread.

It'll be hard leafing through this one, trying to find the exact page where the logistics end and the ecstatics begin.

Thanks,
3rd&4thT
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Good Call, If there is enough interest I have a couple dedicated T-1 data lines and plenty of room on some servers for hosting audio files.

I'd also like to see a decent thread with the mod's that take place.
 
I am trying to figure out how to send the mass mails again. It doesn't work on the users console. There are almost 400 names and I am still using outlook express on a MAC. I have the E-mail list,(but not in my address book) but can't find a way to put them in groups of 100 (the limit I think) without entering them one at a time.



UPDATE:
the mic pres are now in customs
 
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chance said:
I am trying to figure out how to send the mass mails again. It doesn't work on the users console. There are almost 400 names and I am still using outlook express on a MAC. I have the E-mail list,(but not in my address book) but can't find a way to put them in groups of 100 (the limit I think) without entering them one at a time.



UPDATE:
the mic pres are now in customs
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Oh, and the other ship is in US waters
 
chance said:
I am trying to figure out how to send the mass mails again. It doesn't work on the users console. There are almost 400 names and I am still using outlook express on a MAC. I have the E-mail list,(but not in my address book) but can't find a way to put them in groups of 100 (the limit I think) without entering them one at a time.
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Save the email addresses to a text file. Then, in Terminal, do the following steps.

1. In TextEdit, take the list and reformat it so that it contains one email address per line. Save this on your desktop as list.txt (or whatever name you like, but make sure you save it as a plain old text file, not as rich text or HTML.

2. At this point, you should have a file containing one email address per line. Next, type:

# Print a comma-separated list of the first 100 email addresses.
head -n 100 < drag file to the terminal window at this point | tr '\n' ','

# Print a comma-separated list of the next 100 email addresses.
head -n 200 < drag file to the terminal window at this point | tail -n 100 | tr '\n' ','

# Print a comma-separated list of the next 100 email addresses.
head -n 300 < drag file to the terminal window at this point | tail -n 100 | tr '\n' ','

Continue increasing the first number by 100 to get the next 100.

Caveat: watch for duplicates. Eventually you will get the same list twice. When you get the same list twice, you're almost done. Check the first few entries in that list. You will notice that they are listed towards the bottom of the previous batch. Delete the duplicate email addresses.

3. Copy and paste the resulting lists of email addresses into Mail.

Or just email me the list and I'll hack it into comma-separated lists of 100 addresses at a time. :)
 
I just got word they are delivering the first container tomorrow. I am going to try to hold them off until Friday. This is the 20' container. It's 23.9 cubic meters. Can anyone tell me how big a footprint I need to clear in the w-house? The other container is in customs now (40' container)
 
If I did the math right if you stack it 4 ft high it will take about 211 square ft for the 20'.
 
or 24 cu meters = 2x3x4 meters

= ~6 1/2 feet ( 80") tall x 10 feet (120") by ~14 feet (160")
 
This is great news..... I think we need one thread for each piece of gear separately. Of course it wouldn't hurt if there are some other threads on 'all of the gears are great!!' ^_^

BTW Chance, I suppose it'll be a while before you prepare the International (Canada) shipment with the shipping invoice? I can't speak for everyone but I definitely needs insurance on them. On an interesting note, the gear may cost $X but the actual replacement cost will probably be much higher like 2x to 3x... ouch - I don't wanna think about that.
 
chance said:
I just got word they are delivering the first container tomorrow. I am going to try to hold them off until Friday. This is the 20' container. It's 23.9 cubic meters. Can anyone tell me how big a footprint I need to clear in the w-house? The other container is in customs now (40' container)
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This is great news, Chance. Things are pretty slow here. If I was in CA. I'd offer to help.

:D
 
erniebb said:
BTW Chance, I suppose it'll be a while before you prepare the International (Canada) shipment with the shipping invoice? I can't speak for everyone but I definitely needs insurance on them. On an interesting note, the gear may cost $X but the actual replacement cost will probably be much higher like 2x to 3x... ouch - I don't wanna think about that.
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Not sure about FedEx, but with USPS you can't insure a package for greater value than the customs declaration. Given GST and duty, it might not be in your best interest to overstate the value . . .
 
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