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At 12:53 08/11/2001, Booth Martin wrote:

>Can I build a Logical file over a physical file in QS36F?   The physical 
>file is a program-described file and I am wondering about creating a 
>logical over it with the actual field descriptions and then use the 
>logical as an Externally described file?

You can create a logical, but you'll need derive the key fields as 
substrings of the alpha dataspace - do a dspffd on the s/36 file to see 
what I mean. The entire record will be defined as one field, unless it also 
has keys, in which case those will be split out as separate fields. You 
could also use the s36ee bldindex procedure, which will do the dirty work 
for you, and end up creating just such a logical.


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall/



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