[chirp_users] chirp_users Digest, Vol 111, Issue 14

[Dan Brown]

You're equating things that are fundamentally different.  Yes, .doc,
.pub, and .ppt are proprietary MS formats (though I don't believe
they've ever taken people to court over them).  But .csv isn't, and
never has been--in fact, it's been around longer than Microsoft has by
about three years.


On 3/22/18 8:56 PM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
>
> .CSV, .DOC, .PUB and .PPT definitely are Microsoft proprietary file
> formats although Microsoft have now given up taking people to court
> trying to protect them. You're right that they will now open in many
> different systems (except .PUB) but often with differing results.
>
>
> If you need to be universal, use Open Document Foundation's file formats.
>
>
>
>> On 22 March 2018 at 20:30 Aubrey Turner <aubrey.c.turner at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Not to be overly pedantic, but CSV is not a Microsoft-specific
>> format.  CSV stands for "Comma Separated Value" and it's a very
>> simple format.  Lots of software can handle it on all platforms.  I
>> can view them even on my Android phone.
>>
>> That said, most Windows systems are set up by default to open a CSV
>> file in Excel, but that doesn't really have bearing on the format
>> itself. 
>>
>>
>> On 03/22/2018 07:26 PM, Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
>>>
>>> But a csv file is proprietary Microsoft format so can't use that.
>>> Many of us are not on Microsoft operating systems. And if you make
>>> it just like a cellphone, then you're at the mercy of the radio
>>> manufacturer to provide the programming.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 22 March 2018 at 17:28 Brandon Clark <kl7bsc at gmail.com>
>>>> <mailto:kl7bsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>> Radios needs to behave like phones, plug them into the computer
>>>> with a USB cable and then simply drag and drop your CSV file into
>>>> the right folder for the radio to read it.
>>>
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