consolidating qualified files using cat

[John Esak]

I see no problems with this... Looks fine. You forgot a -e on the dxmaint
line so you bypass the dxmaint menu when it's all done... :-)  I mean if you
want to be picky that is. :-)

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
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m] On Behalf Of Robert McCallum
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:24 PM
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> Subject: consolidating qualified files using cat
> 
> 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
> 
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