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Maybe I am misunderstanding the variable length field concept.
I thought it could reduce my file size??
OK, I have a physical file with a field that has fixed length of 256
I change the file to have variable length field 1028 and the allocated
length of 30.
Most of the records have 0 - 10 bytes of data in the field (I may reduce
allocated size to 10)
I then updated the file so that the new file with the new variable length
field has data truncated to minimum length (stripped off trailing blanks)
I then compare the file size (using DSPOBJD) and the new file with the
variable length field is quite a bit larger then the old file with the fixed
length field.
I expected to see a smaller object size?
Or am I looking in the wrong place to compare the before and after sizes?
John
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