Once upon a time, before the GATEWAY command, before quotation marks were single, before XML, before other EDI standards, there were times when we had to send data into a text file, delimited by characters that could never be in the data. Sometimes spaces could be in the data. So programs would do things like: SET BLANK="^" OUTPUT^export.txt UNLOAD^DATA^FOR^viewname^AS^ASCII OUTPUT^SCREEN SET^BLANK=" "
But I don't think I've messed with BLANK settings in many years. NULL might have been a problem even then. Bill On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:27 PM, jan johansen <[email protected]>wrote: > FYI, > > When this message first appeared, I had been unaware of BLANK. > So I tried SET BLANK NULL on a BACKUP VERSION OF A DATABASE. > I couldn't recover from it. > > Jan > >
