At 4/2/2003 08:53 AM, you wrote:

>I must really be losing my touch for explaining things.

No, no. I'll take the blame for not understanding.

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

Ok, now that makes sense.


How does this method compare speed-wise with normal fixed width
char(xx)-type external files?


tia,

Bob M..