exists command - resolution

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

I think your getting upset again!

In any event, please clarify. Are you saying I should be using the export
statement twice and only closing it once after the second export???

Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: exists command - resolution


> Quoting Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com>:
>
> > I did execute the export twice. The header was overridden. When I
> > executed two differently defined exports it worked.
> [...]
>
> Executing the EXPORT statement twice, without closing it in between,
> will cause two records to be exported.  I have never heard of anyone
> having such a problem.
>
> If you have a processing table that executes an EXPORT statement twice,
> without closing it in between, and ends up with only a single record
> being exported, then perhaps you need to contact fpsupport and arrange
> to send them a file to duplicate.  (They would need actual files for
> them to run, not small snippets as posted here.)
>
> As I said before, exporting a header record the first time through is
> a very common task, and I've done it exactly as I stated -- by executing
> the EXPORT twice.
>
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