Exchanging delimited text files is a simple form of system integration.(computers in small libraries)

Before XML, before interoperability, before Open URL, there was the simplest and perhaps the most effective form of system integration--exchanging delimited text files between disparate systems. In fact, I would say that text file swapping is still the mainstay of getting one system to exchange information with another.

Conceptually, the process isn't difficult to understand. The skills needed to facilitate the process aren't all that difficult either, although they do take some time to learn. Once you learn these skills you will be empowered to create customized solutions that save ...

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