Second request-need to compress / remove empty records from an fP key file

[Bob Stockler]

Jeff Harrison wrote (on Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:08:05PM -0800):

| --- Bob Stockler <bob at trebor.iglou.com> wrote:
| 
| [snip]
| > 
| > With the "key" file being larger that the OS
| > permits, I don't
| > know if you'll be able to read it at all, but if you
| > can, you
| > will probably lose some records at the end of it.
| 
| I don't think the "key" file could be larger than the
| OS permits :-)  Isn't that an oxymoron?

I guess you're right.

| Actually from experience on unix systems I have found
| that the last record gets only partially saved so that
| the key file length is exactly at the file limit.  It
| can be read just fine with the alien file technique.

I hope, for his sake, you're right.

I wonder what happend to my earlier post, where I gave him more
detailed info about how to run a process each night to get rid
of all of the deleted and saved-empty records in a filePro file.

BTW, I hope he doesn't have and MEMO or BLOB fields in his file.
I found awhile ago that sometimes those fields in deleted records
were not alway equal to "".

Bob

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