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From: ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Simple File Transfer
Message-ID: <2576D91B.25986@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 20:03:38 GMT
Reply-To: ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS
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I have what I considered to be a trivial problem.  However, I have been
unable to solve it, much to my chagrin.  I am a Fairly experienced user of
RBase and a complete novice at Dbase III plus.  I am having trouble putting
information into a Dbase III plus database.

I need to translate a download which is in ASCII to a standard database that
we use for order tracking.  The problem is that the download is missing a 
few fields we use for reference and has a few extra the mainframe people add.
Getting rid of the extras is simple (I think), just copy using fields and don't
include the ones I don't want, but how in the hell do I add fields to a 
database once it has been defined????

This is easy in Rbase, is this impossible in db?  Should I use another method
altogether?  Has anyone out there had this same problem, or am I going nuts?
I would think that this type of application would be quite common, but 
nobody here has ever done anything like this before.

Please e-mail and I'll summarize if there is interest.

Thanks in advance.

Alex Jauch
UCI, AIS
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
(714) 856-8671


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