Import ASCII file

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/15/2011 11:39 AM, Scott Nelson wrote:
>
>> Note that I "discovered" a method some years ago, where you don't need a
>> record to sit on.  Run the import in *clerk, and put the processing in the
>> @MENU handler.
>
> And this groovy method is also a great way to do reports from large
> files.  Build the input process to ask the user questions, look into the
> files for the report data by the indexes, put the data into variables,
> use the formm command and you have a fast and flexible report.

Or build a *report command line to execute via SYSTEM.

And, given that it's @MENU, there is no locked record that you are sitting on.

-- 
Kenneth Brody