another -v processing question

[Dennis Malen]

No, as long as the scan in -v will use the auto index then fine.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: another -v processing question


> Dennis Malen wrote:
>> Ken,
>>
>> That would be great also. But simply I am using the power of -v to select 
>> the records. In order to do that I am starting from the beginning of the 
>> file in order the -v  to "select" the appropriate records.
>>
>> If there were some way within processing or on the command line to 
>> identify an automatic index to use and -v would recognize this it would 
>> save a tremendous amount of time. Using -v takes longer and longer as the 
>> file grows.
> [...]
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you are asking.  Once this index were 
> specified, are you expecting this to magically tell filePro to access only 
> those records that your processing wants?  All that specifying an 
> automatic index as input does is cause filePro to read the records in 
> index order, rather than record number order.  What functionality are you 
> envisioning here?
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Brody