RE: Creater header/footer records for a physical file

oliver.wenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote 

> one customer requires us to ftp a file with header/footer 
> records, so he 
> can see if the transfer
> is complete.
> 
> What is the easiest way to insert a record at *top* of a 
> physical file 
> (without keys). Manually,
> I create an empty file with a header record, then copy the 
> actual file 
> with *add, and then do the
> footer record.

Short of writing a program to read and write all the records, I can't think
of another way.  However, perhaps you could convince your customer to accept
an alternative solution.  Instead of marker records _in_ the file (which
would have to be removed by whatever application processes the file, adding
complexity) write a pair of marker _files_.  They wouldn't have to have any
data, just suitable names.  So your FTP script might have lines like this:

        put FTPSTART
        put DATAFILE
        put FTPFINISH

You might want to delete them first if they are already there, but if not,
then their timestamps would show when the process last ran.

Cheers,

Martin.

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