Date:         Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:38:12 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J." <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: poll: directory structure #?
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> From: Dwight Eggers [mailto:Dwight.Eggers@ericsson.com]
> Defining your file structure and naming conventions are major design
> decisions.  It can bring order to your life,
> or haunt you for years to come.

[nods tiredly]  What he said! in spades!

I just spent a day and half going back thru six shipments of a project, to
1997,
renaming data sets so that I could use a set of tools I developed to
concatenate all the data sets together for eventual SQL access.

Remind me to wear my "data manager and CZAR" hat when I deal with these
folks.

Ron Fehd  the macro maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2@cdc.gov
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