Hi,

At May 26, 2004, 08:31, Ali Gökçen wrote:

>> External tables are not binary files, but fixed length ASCII files.

> whats ASCII? 1 byte coded binary data, like EBCDIC.
> char/integer/float.. is compiler directives to interpret bytes for
> machine cycles...
> everythink is binary inside the computers. ;)

Oh! I know that.:) I was referring to ASCII text format, where numbers
are represented as text in the file. It is recommended to read them as
character data and convert them, by using CAST. This comes from the
IB6 beta Data Definition Guide, page 108.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)