RE: Accessing files In QTEMP

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

> >It can cause more problems that its worth.<
>How?  Yes, there's more cleanup involved, but that is hardly a daunting task.

I have a number of multi member file that were created by developers. No 
clean up routines, no housekeeping, no management.

These files regularly have to have housekeeping performed just so they 
don't reach the 32,767 limit. Everything (processing wise) pretty much 
stops if this happens.

In my opinion, these files create more problems than they are worth, 
because the developers didn't take the time to solve the problem properly.

Any strategy that doesn't solve/perform it's own housekeeping or relies on 
"other" tasks to run regularly is doomed to failure.

I think the solutions that presented a master file with some kind of key 
for the temporary data, or the use of QTEMP and rolling the whole job into 
one chunk of code sound more like the way to go to me.

Just my particular take on this.

Regards
Evan Harris

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