Field expansion question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:41:41PM -0500, Tom Carey wrote:
>    My question: Is there any file reformating process required after the field
>    definition changes are made? The modified indexes will have to be
>    regenerated. Is there anything else required?

Brian mentioned it, but I'll expand: you need to check *all your
processing*, to see whether and where you might copy data from that
field into a dummy variable, and expand those variables -- and check to
see if any code that touches them makes assumptions about their length
(MID functions, most notably).

It's not an easy job.  :-}

Cheers,
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