Re: A probably stupid Question....

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Elonna,

At 7/13/01 01:15 PM -0500, you wrote:
>I am doing file conversions and have a problem.  I have two files with the
>same name, same record name and same field names.  However, some of the
>field definitions have changed, ie a 4b,0 field has become a 6A field.  I
>can obviously change file naes with OVRDBF commands and rename record
>names, but is there anyway that anyone knows of that will make this easier
>than having to internally define one of the files to rename the fields to
>map between the two files?  Some of the DDS files are short so internally
>defining them would not be a problem, but some of them have DDSs that are 8
>pages long, etc which for only having to change 2 or 3 fields seems like a
>lot of wasted work to me.

  Try CPYF w/ options *MAP and *DROP.

  -mark

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