export fixed length problem

[Dennis Malen]

Ken,

I don't know what you mean by the top or the bottom. In any event, the
record numbers it pulls have been verified as the correct info. It seems I
just have a right or left justified problem. If there are leading spaces it
seems to move it over no matter what the field  is defined as. Perhaps it is
the definition of Field 1 which is (6,.0).

Concerning an upgrage to 5.0.14 I am waiting for filePro to get back and
confirm that it works on AIX 5.1 and or 5.2.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: export fixed length problem


> 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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