[ale] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

[Preston Boyington]

+1 on csv.

I've worked with large surface models in the past and have had to send 
the information (N,E,Z points) to various clients/contractors without 
knowing exactly what software they used.

There's something to be said for a spreadsheet that opens an 8 meg text 
file.

:-)

Jim Kinney wrote:
> csv or some other pure text format. If the rows include a binary blob,
> those get exported separately as <keyname>-<column_number>.<filetype>
> and their location in the row filled with the <folder>/<new filename>.
> 
> I also include a README with notes on what's going on as well as an
> EXAMPLE that has column headers showing name and types.
> Lastly is the <folder> with the binary blobs.
> 
> The entire pile is a tgz for Linux or .zip for other.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> If I want to send a client 200,000 rows of info and I don't know what
>> software they have, what database format would you recommend?
>>
>> fyi: I really do send large files like that from time to time.
>> Currently I send it as a Excel 2007 file (.xlsx) most of the time.
>> Most of my clients can work with that.
>>
>> Greg
>>
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