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From: dranney@infmx.UUCP (David Ranney)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: reading flat files in Informix
Message-ID: <2735@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 23:35:36 GMT
References: <792@crash.cts.com> <1989Nov29.233548.14714@aqdata.uucp>
Reply-To: dranney@infmx.UUCP (David Ranney)
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 sort of correct.  There is no "unload" command in 4gl, but you can
write a short report that acts like unload.  There is no "load" command per-se,
but dbload does the exact same type of thing.  Look in the appendices of your
reference manual for an explanation of dbload.


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