Export Data to a File Weirdness

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Apr 6 14:04:02 PDT 2005


Quoting GCC Consulting (Wed, 06 Apr 2005 16:32:09 -0400):
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
> > Of DataDoIt
[... Using SYSTEM "echo ..." to create an export file ...]

> Just a quick question, why bother to system out to create this file?
> You can create the header & details from within processing.  Many of
> us do this every day without a problem.
[...]

And even if EXPORT can't be used, for whatever reason, you could always
fall back to file I/O with OPEN, WRITE/WRITELINE, CLOSE.

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