Re: Pilot: importing big memo?

[Steve Dixon <steve@xxxxxxx>]

>  This seems like something that should be easy to do, but
>  i must be missing the solution somehow.
> 
>  I've got a plain ascii text file that's about 10 lines
>  long on my computer.  I want to import it to the Desktop
>  and sync it to my Pilot as a single memo with multiple
>  lines.  All the different formats (csv, tab, etc) seem
>  to import each line as a separate memo.
> 
>  Thus i end up with 10 single line memos instead of one 10
>  line memo.  The only way i've been able to get it loaded as
>  a single memo is to concatenate all the lines into one long
>  line, and import that.  Then once on the Pilot, i break it
>  back up into individual lines (basically add carriage returns).
> 
>  There must be a better way...

    If you make the first character of your file a double-quote (") and
also the last character of the file a double-quote it should import as a
single memo. You might want to make sure that there are no other
double-quotes elsewhere in the file - apart from the ones at the
beginning and the end.

Steve Dixon
Advanced Investment Technology