I have come across this limitation before, too. One work-around is to use READSEQ and WRITESEQ, that seems to work OK even when COPY and ED fail.
Also, the item size limit on the Windows implementation of UV was much larger than that on Unix last time I participated in a conversion (it may even have been unbounded). Code that worked OK on Windows failed on HP-UX, so we had to change to use READSEQ/WRITESEQ. Heh, Windows better than *ix? =O <asbestos underwear on> ;-) Regards Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louie Bergsagel Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2008 9:46 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] uniVerse COPY command and the UVTEMP directory That happens to me all the time when I try to COPY a &HOLD& file/record to another directory. My reports are often 230mb or larger. I asked IBM, and they said "COPY always had a size limit." Can't ED it either, as Dan observed. So I just wrote a program to select the records, and copy them using the unix cp command. Then I list them using the unix ls command to make sure they were copied. -- Louie 0001: COMMAND = \SELECT REPORTS WITH START.DATE = \:OCONV(@DATE,"D4/") 0002: DISPLAY COMMAND 0003: EXECUTE COMMAND 0004: LOOP 0005: READNEXT COPY.HOLD.ID ELSE COPY.HOLD.ID = '' 0006: WHILE COPY.HOLD.ID 0007: COMMAND = \sh -c "cp -r '/sam/hill/&HOLD&/\:COPY.HOLD.ID:\' /sam/hill/HOLD.TODAY/\: COPY.HOLD.ID:\"\ 0008: DISPLAY COMMAND 0009: EXECUTE COMMAND 0010: COMMAND = \sh -c "ls -l /sam/hill/HOLD.TODAY/\:COPY.HOLD.ID: \"\ 0011: DISPLAY COMMAND 0012: EXECUTE COMMAND 0013: DISPLAY 0014: REPEAT 0015: END ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ The information contained in this Internet Email message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged information, but not necessarily the official views or opinions of the New Zealand Defence Force. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or distribute this message or the information in it. If you have received this message in error, please Email or telephone the sender immediately. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
