>>>>> Louis Kleiman l'ha dit:

Louis> Native (to me) simply means that numerics are stored in the
Louis> file as numerics, not ASCII. They are stored as they would
Louis> be if you had FB write an external file that was defined
Louis> with numeric column types.

That's the way it is. Simply define the external table fields as
CHAR(nn), FB will automatically handle the translation from/to
numerics and dates.

ciao, lele.
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