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From: bgolden@infmx.UUCP (Bernard Golden)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: reading flat files in Informix
Message-ID: <2727@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 18:10:56 GMT
References: <792@crash.cts.com> <1989Nov29.233548.14714@aqdata.uucp>
Reply-To: bgolden@infmx.UUCP (Bernard Golden)
Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <1989Nov29.233548.14714@aqdata.uucp> sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan) writes:
>From article <792@crash.cts.com>, by scotto@crash.cts.com (Scott O'Connell):
>> I have a need to read in prepared text files with Informix 4GL.  The
>
>I was about to respond to this article with something along the lines
>of filters and using RDSQL's "load" command when something made me look
>in the 4gl manual.  I find out there is no "load" command and there is
>no "unload" command in 4gl, unlike SQL.  Am I missing something here?
>If I'm not, I'm going to be very upset.

You are not missing something; however, LOAD and UNLOAD will be available 
in the next release (4.0), scheduled to be available early next year.
Hope this helps.

-b


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