RE: converting files and many views

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the difference in file size between Excel and CPYTOIMPF is due to
CPYTOIMPF's padding all fields with blanks.  It's more like fixed length
text in that respect.  It also left justifies numerics.   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angela Wawrzaszek [mailto:wawrzaszeka@AUSTEEL.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:26 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: converting files and many views
> 
> 
> I did use the *none  on the cpytoimpf to specify no quotes.  
> We are on V4R4
> - going up on V4R5 at Easter,  so we do not have the extra 
> parameter for
> code page.  That is why I tried just doing the cpy obj  toobj ... and
> specified *pcascii on that command hoping it would accomplish the same
> thing.  
> 
> However the size of the files are different thus i think the 
> line wrapping.
> My file is samll - only 49 positions.  However if I use cpytoimpf the
> resulting file is 8mb,  importing to excel and saving as .csv 
> is only 5mb.
> 
> Hopefully when we go up on the new release I can eliminate 
> this problem with
> the cpytoimpf extra parms.
> 
> 
> Angie Wawrzaszek
> M.I.S. Department
> 
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