BLOB files

William James McEachran billmc at dataffinity.com
Fri Feb 9 11:31:28 PST 2007


I seem to recall that there was a utility for fixing blob files (blobfix?). 
Am I mistaken? I couldn't find it on the filePro web site.

I deleted a BLOB file and recreated it (with "> blob") and of course
now I'm getting errors such as:

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*** A System Error Has Occurred ***

On File: /opt/CARDINAL/filepro/ccrverid/blob

Input Processing
Line Number: 130

lookup verd = ccrverid  k=(_FOUNDROUTE & "    ") i=A -ngm b=(BROWSE)
^
'uniq template & detail
lookup verd = ccrverid  k=(_FOUNDROUTE & "    ") i=A -ngm b=(BROWSE)


Success
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How do I fix the BLOB so I can use it again? (I don't care about the data
I'm just testing here).  

Second, related blob question.
If I copy one lookup file to another, and the maps of the two files
are identical with each containing a BLOB  (16,BLOB) will
the BLOB be copied over properly?  (That's what I was testing!).

This is for filePro 5.0.14 moving soon to 5.0.15.

-- 
Bill McEachran


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