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[Jeff Harrison]

--- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> --

Ah, Yes, If it is not truely fixed length then the
alien will of course not work.  Ok, we are down to
just 7,014 ways now.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and imports.


		
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