From: Maks Romih <maksr@snt.si>
Subject: Re: Importing tab-delimited text files or connecting to ODBC
Date: 17 Feb 2006 18:01:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhd6xdin2.fsf@snt.si> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1140194141.208572.236910@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
"Eric Pement" <pemente@northpark.edu> writes:
> Maks Romih wrote:
>
> > [...] I want to have some tool to connect to or import from other data
> > sources, especially relational DBMS-es, excel, MS Access, etc.
>
> I think the difficulty with your search being fulfilled is that you are
> hoping to have Emacs, which is GNU-founded "free software", find a way
> to import data structures created by proprietary, non-free software. I
> suggest that there could be a philosophical hesitation for some people
> in getting free software to support commercial, non-free software. I
> think we're lucky to get GNU Emacs available for WinNT!
>
> --
> Eric Pement
I'm exploring these possibilities exactly because I'm not satisfied
with "non-free software".
Maks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-17 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-16 8:44 Importing tab-delimited text files or connecting to ODBC Maks Romih
2006-02-16 23:33 ` Markus Triska
2006-02-17 12:19 ` Maks Romih
2006-02-17 0:04 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-02-17 14:29 ` Maks Romih
2006-02-17 16:35 ` Eric Pement
2006-02-17 17:01 ` Maks Romih [this message]
2006-02-17 19:06 ` Tim McNamara
2006-02-18 18:25 ` Peter S Galbraith
2006-02-18 5:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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