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From: wew@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBase dbf stru modify
Message-ID: <2424@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
Date: 9 Aug 90 14:53:52 GMT
References: <116447@linus.mitre.org>
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Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
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From article <116447@linus.mitre.org>, by cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier):
> Suppose I copy stru to test and then modi stru to fewer fields with the same
> field names and sizes. How do I append from the "fuller" .DBF to the modified
> .DBF just those fields with equal names and sizes? Is it required that I copy
> the specific data to another file "delimited" then append from delimited?

When you append from a file that has more fields or fields of a 
different size, dBASE automatically looks for fields with the same
names and only appends the data between the files with fields
of the same name.  What you suggest is the standard way of
making a subset of a fuller file.

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