Re: Update primary filre

[Asher613Smith@xxxxxxx]

The logic for what and when to write to the work file is identitcal to what 
 and when to update to the logical or 2nd copy of the primary file, no? And 
then  you still have to write a new program to read the work file and chain 
to the  primary file to do the updates. Or am I missing something?
 
 
In a message dated 4/24/2009 1:31:51 A.M. Jerusalem Daylight Time,  
booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Just a  small comment:  This is already a bad enough program, right?  The  
less you add to it, the better.  Would you consider  just adding  a work 
file and input the data into it, and then after this monster runs,  runs 
another single-purpose program to update the fields based on the data  
captured by the monster?

. 

Robert Nesiba wrote:
>  Probably the infDS, in lieu of look-ahead, might work
> but  our  program has a bunch of total time L1 calculations,
> and I don't want to  make any major changes to the overall
> program logic. 
>
>  We're probably going to have to leave our primary file as input,
> and  then add another file spec for update, either updating a new logical 
>  file
> or using OVRDBF to point to the same file.   
>  Any reason that won't work?
> Thanks.
>   

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