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[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jeff Harrison (Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:23:35 -0800 (PST)):

> --- GCC Consulting <gccconsulting at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > CONVERT TO DBF, AND USE DBCOPY.
> >
> > THIS WILL AVOID THIS PROBLEM
>
> Yes, also creating an alien file will avoid the
> problem, also a tab delimited file...  Oh, and
> probably about 7,013 other ways. :-)

Creating an alien file won't help in this case.  Although the fields
in each line are space-padded to a fixed length, the final field on
each line has no such padding.  Therefore, the file itself does not
have fixed-length records.

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