tabs as an option is fine. it would be human and spreadsheet readable. win32
text tools would interpret the tabs.
Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > how does one post enhancement requests?
>
> Send mail to ethereal-users.
>
> > for example, in win32 printing to file, if the fields were delimited
> > by tabs it would be very easy to import data into spreadsheet or db.
>
> That doesn't sound like a printing operation, it sounds like a
> data-generation operation, so it might go into an operation other than
> "File->Print". (I'm not sure that *replacing* the "Print summary"
> operation with one that users tabs would be an enhancement, as one
> purpose of "Print to file" is to produce files for human reading, so
> doing it as a tab-delimited file would be done as an *alternative* to
> the current scheme, not a *replacement* for the current scheme.)
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