--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Kjell Rilbe <kjell.rilbe@...>
wrote:

> I don't think external tables can work with non fixed width files at
> all, but I might be wrong.
> Is it a Windows environment?

No, its Linux.

> I'm sure such a file could be padded in "no-time" with a small util. It
> could be executed automatically when a new file is uploaded. I could
> write you such an util, except the "auto run" feature, which would take
> me too long to figure out.

I'm just installing Lazarus/Free Pascal on Linux and I'll write a
small command line utility to do this. I suspect it won't take long
at all to run that way, and I can 'shell' to it from PHP so it should
be quick.

Myles