[Elecraft] [K3] UTILITY Improvements

[Tom Childers, N5GE]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:47:55 -0700, "Dick Dievendorff" <dieven at comcast.net>
wrote:

>We can't introduce a dependency on a fee product like Microsoft Excel.
>However there are a number of free XML editors.   And comma-separated
>variable files can be manipulated with other tools.
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>Dick, K6KR
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[snip]

I agree that fee based products are not a good solution.

Delimited files like CSV files would be smaller, but harder to read and
understand by humans.

XML files require more storage, but the description of each field goes along
with the data.  In the case where data layout changes rapidly XML would be the
better choice, because software that reads the data could be more flexible when
fields are added or taken away.

Tom, N5GE