-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Zaleski ]
Posted At: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 6:43 PM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Dauntless Safelog - is there a way to export data to CSV
format?
Subject: Dauntless Safelog - is there a way to export data to CSV
format?

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:09:50 -0500, "Jim Carter"
wrote:

Could someone using the software address this issue? I posed the
question to "Dauntless", John T., and Bill Zaleski.and the thread
went
silent. I'd really like to know because I haven't selected a package
yet.

I am not interested in a CSV format, as I am paying for the software
and am happy with it's useability in the current form. If it ain't
broke, why fix it?


Bill,
I tend not to take a myopic view of software and always want to
leave myself an out for upgrading or converting to some other product I
might wish / need to use in the future.

This whole thread started because someone accused Dauntless of
holding their personal data hostage. I pointed out that there might be a
provision of dumping to a common format like CSV and asked Dauntless or
Safelog supporters / users to describe such a facility. Ever since I
posed that question the conversation has gotten strangely quiet leading
me to believe the original poster may have a valid point. Dauntless
Safelog does not want to address their portability issues. Why? And
don't tell me its to protect their market segment. When companies focus
on protecting segments rather than supporting customers, the protection
problem gets much simpler as their segment gets smaller and smaller.

I am finding it more and more difficult to find fault with the
original poster that was complaining about data captivity. Could someone
who knows for sure please address the portability of data issue for
extraction from Safelog format? Dauntless acknowledges the need, but
only to load data into their application, not the other way around.