maximum dummy field length

[Dennis Malen]

And the winner is: Howie

We used the following in the processing table:

putenv "PFIMPBUF", "8000"

That did the trick.

Thanks again for everyone's help and comments.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: maximum dummy field length


> Quoting Dennis Malen (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:14:47 -0400):
> [...]
>>> When importing a string of information into the dummy field and upon 
>>> viewing
>>> the contents of the value of A, it only brings in information up to the
>>> 2,399th position and drops everything else.
>>
>> Define:
>>
>>     "importing a string of information into a dummy field"
>>
>> This is the import string:
>> import ascii pra=/tmp/nan.wp r=\n f=\n
>>  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>> not pra
>> end
>>  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>>        'entire record read in as dummy field "a"
>> a(6000,*)=pra(1)
> [...]
>
> Have you, perhaps, set PFIMPBUF=2400?
>
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