header records on an export file

Bob Stockler bob at trebor.iglou.com
Tue Sep 21 17:56:24 PDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:31:22PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
| Brian K. White wrote:
| >Bob Stockler wrote:
| >
| >>I _think_ the -A switch works only with EXPORT ASCII.
| >
| >word and ascii, but not the others.
| 
| You are correct Bob.

Now I don't know who or what to believe.

I just looked at the filePro help file on Windows [1] and it
shows that the -A flag works on _all_ EXPORT commands.

I use only EXPORT ASCII, so I'm not enough interested to test
it to find out.

Bob (whose contribution was to note that -A and -X were incompatible)

[1] - C:\fp\docs\filePro.hlp

| changing nothing about the example code I posted a few minutes ago, except 
| changing the main data export cmmand in the one-line gosub exp
| 
| from this
| export word csv = (@pm) -a
| 
| to this
| export ascii csv = (@pm) -a f=, o=" c="
| 
| the header export in @once still uses export word even.
| 
| It now works as the original posted wanted.
| 
| 
| My info came from lauras help files, don't know if it is stated anywhere 
| else.
| 
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