adding a single record from command line

[John Esak]

OOH Bob,
Kudos, I have never seen that... Nor ever even thought of it!  Good one.

God, can't figure out a good response in 15 minutes or 10 seconds... Can't
think up clever stuff like this... I must be getting old.... Okay, old(er)
:-)

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> m] On Behalf Of Bob Simcoe
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 10:35 AM
> To: scooter6 at gmail.com; filePro Mailing List
> Subject: RE: adding a single record from command line
> 
> \fp\dexpand filename 1
> 
> Bob Simcoe
> 
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> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 10:21 AM
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> Subject: adding a single record from command line
> 
> I have a 'temp' file that I import from a client, then do 
> misc processing on
> it and then copy all these records to a duplicate file for 
> archive purposes.
> I delete them from the original 'temp' file after I copy them 
> to the archive
> file.
> 
> Since the only time I get records to add to this 'temp' file 
> are in the form
> of a file I receive from a client, I run -K to delete all the 'blank'
> records to keep this 'temp' file
> from growing with a bunch of 'empty' records, etc.
> As you know, there must be at least 1 record in a filePro 
> file in order to
> do an 'import' to it.....so is there a built in command to 
> add one record to
> a file that has no records in it currently?
> 
> I guess I could write a simple output processing to do this 
> for me, just
> didn't know if there was a command I was unfamiliar with to 
> simply add 1
> blank record to a file
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Scott
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