Re: OPNQRYF Education

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a book by either Midrange or News/400(Duke) on it...OR if you can
find a copy of Sloan's handout from COMMON...



On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Pat Barber wrote:

> Does anybody know of a decent book that goes into a lot of detail
> about opnqryf ??? I have used it for years to do simple sorts, and
> "VERY" simple record selections but I would now like to expand my
> knowledge of this very powerful command, but figuring out how many
> """"""""""" is a little too much when you get in a hurry and want to
> do somthing as simple as select records from a file that are stored
> with date values mmddyy and you wish to do a range selection..... 
> just too many *cat,*bcat,',"""",,etc,etc.... throw in some passed
> variables and you end up somthing that looks like Fortran done in a
> drunken rage.........
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