Import and Memo.

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From: "Kroboth, Joe" <joe_kroboth at chernay.com>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:58 AM
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Subject: RE: Import and Memo.

>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As you know from my previous posts I'm creating some import tables.
>> > Everything is working fine except for one field. This happens to be a
>> > memo field.  I'm getting garbage instead of the text I'm expecting.
>> >
>> > I'm doing something like this.
>> >
>> > MM=imp(87)
>> > Lookup to file1
>> > File1(87)=MM
>> >

Joe,

Try the following code:

::File1(87)=""{MM{"":

I have found when dealing with text to and from memo fields, the following 
code helps filepro determine how to deal with uncast dummy fields.

Memo to dummy field:
::v=""{File1(87){"":

Text dummy field to Memo:
::File1(87)=""{v{"":

>> > Does this need to be handled a different way because of the memo
>> field?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Joe Kroboth
>> > Chernay Printing, Inc
>> > joe_kroboth at chernay.com
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Rkreiss at verizon.net] [mailto:rkreiss at verizon.net]
>> > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 12:21 PM
>> > To: Kroboth, Joe; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> > Subject: RE: Import and Memo.
>> >
>> > From phone:
>> >
>> > How is MM defined?
>> >
>> > If it is not MM(16,MEMO), that may be your problem.
>> >
>> > Richard Kreiss
>> > GCC  Consulting
>> >
>>
>> When I try Making MM(16,MEMO) the processing crashes with the following
>> error.
>>
>> *** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0x00a5c858 ***
>>
>> Any Ideas what this means.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Joe Kroboth
>> Chernay Printing, Inc
>> joe_kroboth at chernay.com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rkreiss at verizon.net] [mailto:rkreiss at verizon.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 5:07 PM
>> To: Kroboth, Joe; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: RE: Import and Memo.
>>
>> That appears to be a Ken question.
>>
>> Richard
>
> Ok, I'll ask.  Ken what causes the above error?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
>
>
>
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