export fixed length file

[Mike Schwartz (PC Support)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com [mailto:filepro-list-
> bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Harrison
> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:43 PM
> To: Greg Widdows
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: export fixed length file
> 
> --- Greg Widdows <lwiddows at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> >
> > I tried appending to a file using export WORD on
> > 5.0.13R4 SCO Unix.
> >
> > export word act = /tmp/grexp -a
> >
> > It doesn't seem to work. Why?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> >
> > P.S. The Append option for export Word appears in
> > the Help file.
> >
> 
> In my opinion that is either a bug in filepro or a bug
> in the documentation.  I don't think the -a option has
> ever worked with export word.  It does however work
> with export ascii.  So one simple work-around for this
> would be the following export line that mimics export
> word:
> 
> export ascii act = /tmp/grexp r=10 f=, o=" c=" -a
> 
> Jeff Harrison
> jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
> 
> Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
> fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and imports.

     I've never gotten the -A option to work with Export Word, either.  A
couple of weeks ago I tried it again on fP5.0.14 on SCO Open Server 5.0.4,
but no luck.  So it's not a bug that can be fixed by upgrading to FP 5.0.14.

Mike Schwartz