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Has anyone done a conversion from PIC software?

Sounds familiar. I think our Denver office used this product back in the late 80's (seriously) and we had to write interfaces so that it would work with a System 36. As I recall, it had a fairly decent manufacturing module. But perhaps I am just getting a foggy brain. I believe the interfaces were all written via CSV files.

Beth what specifically are you looking to do regarding PIC? I have used Monarch software in the past to read text report files and save data fields if that's what you're looking to do.

They have export functions available in PIC (this is a really old version) but they export to a | delimited file with no headers. I wondered if anyone already had the file layouts of the exports, so we would be sure we had the right fields. Client asked PIC folks to quote him on exports to Excel and they blew him off. Their noses are REALLY out of joint over his switching software.

I have had tremendous success in the past capturing the printed output to text files and then stripping the relevant fields. This totally takes the prior company out of the picture since the reported output usually contains all that you need. http://www.datawatch.com/_products/monarch_pro.php

Wayne - Will keep this in mind of the standard exports don't work out THANKS!

I did a huge import several years ago for someone on UNIX - I was able to start/stop the print que and copy off the TXT file. Worked like a champ. Unfortunately Monarch has gotten VERY expensive -- I think they get about $1,500 for the software.

I did the same for a Unix system.

A follow up - can get exports from most files in PIC to a | delimited file - looks like they will import OK.