I worked at one site where they habitually used WRITE to write comma delimited files to be passed on to Excel. They simply appended attributes to a large item in memory and did a CHANGE(REC,@AM,CRLF) immediately before the write. It took a bit of persuading but I eventually got the go-ahead to convert those programs to WRITESEQ each row individually.
On Feb 10, 4:51 pm, "Jim Idle" <[email protected]> wrote: > WRITE to a file will attempt to place the whole data on the 'item' in the > 'directory file' and means you have to accumulate all the data before hand. > WRITESEQ can append to the record incrementally and so you do not need to do > that (and can therefore create very big export records such as delimited > files and so on.) > > Jim > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > > Of Kiran > > Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 7:36 PM > > To: jBASE > > Subject: [SPAM] Difference between WRITESEQ and WRITE > > > Hi Viewer, > > > I understand that WRITESEQ is for writing to a sequential file, and > > WRITE is for writing to a hashed file. > > > But I can even use WRITE to write to a sequential file. So what are > > the implications if use them interchangeably? > > > Thanks, > > Kiran. > > > -- > > Please read the posting guidelines at: > >http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines > > > IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions > > specific to Globus/T24 > > > To post, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en
