Un-expanding(?) a file

[Bob Stockler]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 01:47:11PM -0400, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
| 
| The correct solution might be to create a look-a-like file (might be a
| good time to put all the fields in the key instead of splitting them.
| 
| Then copy all the records from this file to the new file.  You now have
| a file with no blank records.
| 
| Now this new file will have the creation date, update date and record
| numbers different from the original file, if that is ok, that is the
| solution.

If the look-a-like file is an Alien file with a 20-byte field
as the first one, all the records are _exactly_ the same.

This processsing can be written by anyone, but my "Deflate"
program automates the process, and does it in place, without
creating a second filePro file.

Bob

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