Re: Modernization and multi-member files -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Modernization and multi-member files
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:53:13 -0800
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Deep dark secret:

It actually IS possible to access files with LOBs through native record-level access (although not the fields themselves, at least via any mechanism I've found), and it actually IS possible to access datalink and BIGINT fields through native RLA, although you have to parse them yourself from raw bytes.

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