export fixed length problem

[Kenneth Brody]

Jeff Harrison wrote:
> 
> --- Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:
> 
> > The Problem:
> >
> > I am using a fixed length export command where the
> > first field is defined as a length of 10.
> [snip]
> > export ascii rnf=(pn) -a
> >
> 
> Dennis, it looks like you are not doing a fixed length
> export.  You should use the -X flag to indicate that
> the export should be fixed length.  I don't think you
> can use both the -a flag and the -x flag, so you will
> need to add additional processing if you still need
> the append to happen.

You can with the 5.0.14 update.

However, this brings up another question...  You're not doing something
silly like looking at the top of the file, which contains data from
previous exports, rather than the bottom, where the current exports are
being done?

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