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From: alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: DBASE IV for Sun 4 questions (long)
Message-ID: <220@ahmcs.uucp>
Date: 25 Jun 91 17:35:44 GMT
References: <8331@einstein> <209@ahmcs.uucp> <1991Jun24.180717.12998@dbase.a-t.com>
Organization: Micro-Quick Systems, Inc.
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In article <1991Jun24.180717.12998@dbase.a-t.com>, tomr@dbase.a-t.com (Tom Rombouts) writes:
$ In article <209@ahmcs.uucp> alan@ahmcs.uucp (Alan Mintz) writes:
$ >In article <8331@einstein>, banner@einstein ( infotech) writes:
$ >
$ >$         -use a different database with a like structure
$ >$         -append from your first database
$ >$         -all records from the first database will appended _including_ the 
$ >$         ones that were marked for deletion...
$ >
$ >I could not duplicate this under VMS, for what that is worth. Sounds like a
$ >pretty serious problem!
$ 
$ My apologies for the bandwidth if this seems too obvious, but APPEND FROM
$ (as well as COPY TO and others) are affected by the SET DELETED value.
$ To cite the doc (which, in theory, should be the same for DOS, VMS, UNIX,
$ etc.):

Ah, but his original post indicated that he had packed the original database
after deleting the records, thus eliminating them. Perhaps the original
poster can clarify.
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< Alan H. Mintz  | alan@ahmcs.mq.com | ...!uunet!ahmcs!alan >