Re: This way or that?

["James W. Kilgore" <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al,

That was my point, unless you have intimate knowledge of the
application, you run the risk of breaking the house of cards.

The application provider should have a method of house keeping to
prevent files from growing and growing.

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:
> 
<<SNIP>>
> 
> James
> 
> In an earlier flirtation with "Garbage Incineration" I removed individual
> lines from files where the contents we no longer needed & discovered that I
> had caused a disaster ... 
<<SNIP>>
> 
> Except by me erasing individual lines in the middle, it would go from line
> 0001 to line 0050 & because 0002 was missing, that was a failed access, and
> it quit right there, so I need to study the application & see if I need to
> resequence the sequence #s when I remove garbage from the middle.
>
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