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   JoeSpareBedroom to Michael Kennedy   
   Re: Flimport Mystery   
   17 Jan 07 15:53:43   
   
   From: dishborealis@yahoo.com   
      
   "Michael Kennedy"  wrote in message   
   news:ixdrh.17515$j7.339576@news.indigo.ie...   
   > What you probably should do, though, is to write a few lines of code to   
   > scan through the file prior to import, and tidy up all sick CRs, LFs,   
   > EOFs, Commas, etc.   
   >   
   > Then, you can dream even more... happily... IN that bar...   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >  - Mike   
      
      
   OK....so I do what? Import the text file into one big field in a table, and   
   search for the sick/missing characters using their ASCII codes?   
      
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