export fixed length file

[Dennis Malen]

John,

You're right. I am on 4.8 and the -x does not work for me so Ken should me 
the use of the "&" and chr("10").

Is AYWK, WAITY something I should be using or is that on 5.0 also?

Dennis


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:45 PM
Subject: RE: Re: export fixed length file


> Unfortunately, he uses AIX, remember. He'll have to wait until the new
> release to get the -a with the -x. Isn't he locked to 4.8?
>
> But, truly, the simplest of i/o routines could do just what he wants very
> easily.  AYWK, WAITY?
>
> John
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Kenneth
>> Brody
>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:48 PM
>> To: Dennis Malen
>> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: Re: Re: export fixed length file
>>
>>
>> Quoting Dennis Malen (Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:44:18 -0500):
>>
>> > Ken,
>> >
>> > Thanks for your response. I failed to inform the list with my post that
>> > this is not a report format. The requirement of this processing was 
>> > that
>> > I needed to append information to a file many times during the day. I
>> > therefore was not able to use the -x.
>> [...]
>>
>> Why not?  This works just fine for me on 5.0.14D4, as it both appends
>> and uses fixed-length fields.
>>
>>   1  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>>          If:
>>        Then: end
>>   2  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> @entsel  If:
>>        Then: show "\{T}-Test export -a -x"
>>   3  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>>          If:
>>        Then: end
>>   4  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> @keyT    If:
>>        Then: export ascii foo=/tmp/foo.txt r=\n -a -x
>>   5  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>>          If:
>>        Then: foo[1] = 1 ; foo[2] = 2 ; foo[3] = @tm
>>   6  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>>          If:
>>        Then: end
>>
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