consolidating qualified files using cat

[Barry Wiseman]

On 5/28/2010 12:23 PM, Robert McCallum wrote:
> Hello,
> Fp 5.0.14R4 on freebsd
> I am working on consolidating a qualified file into a single "key".
> Each "data" file is empty - 0 length.
> It seems that I can
> cat keydallas>>  key;
> cat keyhouston>>key;
> cat keytran>>  key;
> /u/appl/fp/freechain QUOTE
> /u/appl/fp/dxmaint QUOTE -RA
> then delete the qualifiers and everything seems to work.
>
> Am I setting myself up for problems or is this a reasonable thing to do?
> The point is to merge the data without losing the @cd, at cb, at ud, at ub.
>
> I have run successful tests but have not put into production.
> Can anyone confirm or deny?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Robert

This will absolutely work for you, with no "gotchas".  Running freechain should reclaim the now-unused anchor record which began each qualified key.

Barry