import and dummy field length

Dennis Malen dmalen at malen.com
Wed Dec 7 10:04:10 PST 2005


Thanks Laura,

Ken had responded yesterday. The only problem with the guide or the STN book 
is that you have no idea that the problem can be solved with the use  of an 
environmental variable. That's the benefit of the list to point you in the 
right direction.

After Ken gave me the answer I did go to your guide and see it. By the way I 
do use your guide quite frequently which has many facts about filePro in a 
condensed format. I agree, it would be a great gift.

Dennis Malen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Brody" <laura at hvcomputer.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>; <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: import and dummy field length


> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:12:17 -0500, Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:
>
>> I am on filePro 4.8.14R4 I am using the following import command:
>>
>> Then: import ascii acc=/tmp/metrojob.wp r=\n f=\n
>>
>> Then: a(1375)=acc(1);aa=mid(a,"589","32")
>>
>> I am having trouble reading values over 1024.
>>
>> aa=mid(a,"1222","32")
>>
>> aa is empty.
>>
>> Is there a limitation on the length of a dummy field and if so is there a 
>> way to get around that limitation?
>
> The default limit of the import is 1024. To increase
> this, set the environmental variable PFIMPBUF. The value
> can be anything between 1024 and 32767 (16-bit systems) or
> 2147483468 (32-bit).
>
> <Shameless plug>
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> gift for any filePro developer....
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