XML Rocks!

[JWG]

Thank You Carlson for your latest Upgrade, the SurvCADD XML package. It has
some routines I've been wanting ever since SurvCADD 2000, my first package.
Everything in general seems to work smoother, with more options. Routines
that only partially accomplished what I needed seem to be more
comprehensive. More options is hard to program without making the Diags more
cumbersome to use. Your programmers have made good this time. Obviously you
have listened to your customers and tried to work their ideas into the
scheme. I know that it can't be easy to do that!

Now could I have just ONE MORE THING, please SANTA?
Our surveyors use SMI, which dumps ASC files. We generally work on sites
where they have to go back and do more, anywhere from 1 time to 15 times. My
boss needs me to process 3 or 4 dumps at a time or sometimes even every day.
The EXPORT ASCII FILE routine has a provision to write a RANGE of points.
Why doesn't the IMPORT ASCII FILE routine have this feature? Our method of
dumping is for the surveyors to rename the file each day they dump,
SITE1.asc, SITE2.asc, SITE3.asc, etc. So at the end of the job I only have
to use 1 file, the last one, i.e. SITE23.asc. Unfortunately, the reality is
that I have to process (FTF) each day sometimes, and I only need a RANGE of
points out of any ASC file. We have six very active survey crews and my
several minutes every day doing a "SAVE AS" and deleting all the points I
don't need out of EACH dump, eventually turns into hours monthly and creates
a filing nightmare. Please add "RANGE" to the IMPORT ASCII FILE routine
under the POINTS menu in COGO. This would be the most important thing that
you could possibly add to XML as far as I am concerned. I'll do anything,
I'll go to church every Sunday if you could do this. I'll even go to
Vanderbilt football games. ANYTHING!!

Thank you for listening, please forward this to your programmers.
Jack G.