Export file and the use of Append -a

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Dennis Malen propounded (on Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:14:35PM -0400):
| This is my problem. I have clients that I report to with the use of an
| Export Ascii file. The files could be one of three types:
| 
| 1. Fixed Length
| 2. Tab Delimited
| 3. Comma Delimited
| 
| The following are my definitions for each:
| 
| 1. export ascii rnf=(pn) r=\r r=\n -x -a
| 2. export ascii rnx=(pn) r=\n f=\t -a
| 3. export ascii rna=(pn) r=\n f=, o=" c=" -a
| 
| The problem is that when we attempt to append to (1) (the fixed length) it
| rewrites the file. It does not append. Comma delimited (3) works fine and
| Tab delimited (2) works on one client file and does not append to another
| client file. The Tab delimited works fine in other processing that I have so
| that is probably something I'm doing wrong in the processing (Maybe).
| 
| My immediate concern is the Fixed Length (1). The append (-a) does not seem
| to work. Does anyone see what I am doing wrong with the -a in the Fixed
| Length (1) definition.
| 

Why are you defining 'r' twice in No. 1?

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JP