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Alan, You speak the gospel. Any reason not to use multiple members sounds great by me. There's one more to add to my list. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin "Alan E." <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 10/23/2003 09:19 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Re: Create a *LF over a specific *PF member After a couple of re-compiles of LFs and before I started using embedded compile logic executed by a pre-compile, I decided to always try to design files to use a key fields rather than member names. Members are just too tempting sometimes, I use them regularly still, especially for just-in-case daily/weekly/regular downloads of flat files, but it has made a difference. - Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buck" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> | There will come a time when you want to re-create this LF, and someone WILL | simply take PDM option 14 and then your application won't quite be the same. | You'll spend a good long time trying to figure out what happened, and THEN | remember the funky LF. Not what I'd call a Good Day. | --buck _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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