FW: Importing into an empty file (was Re: ASCII Import)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:34:54PM -0400, GCC Consulting wrote:
( me: )
> > Suggestion: since this is a useful programming pattern, and since it's
> > counterintuitive to do it from dclerk, could we get an @START for
> > dreport that fires in the same place?   Or won't that work because,
> > finding no records in the file, dreport won't ever get that far?
> 
> One could always run the process against 1 record of an outside file, read in
> the data and post it across to the file wanted.

Oh yeah, cause *that's* clear, understandable and intuitive..

:-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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