Re: This way or that?

Al,

That was my point, unless you have intimate knowledge of the
application, you run the risk of breaking the house of cards.

The application provider should have a method of house keeping to
prevent files from growing and growing.

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
> 
<<SNIP>>
> 
> James
> 
> In an earlier flirtation with "Garbage Incineration" I removed individual
> lines from files where the contents we no longer needed & discovered that I
> had caused a disaster ... 
<<SNIP>>
> 
> Except by me erasing individual lines in the middle, it would go from line
> 0001 to line 0050 & because 0002 was missing, that was a failed access, and
> it quit right there, so I need to study the application & see if I need to
> resequence the sequence #s when I remove garbage from the middle.
>
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