Hi, I have set up a schema file to read from a text file for a batch update.
I think that the reason it crashes, is becuause there is not
a carriage return & line feed in the file.  It is basically a stream of data
with a record length of 220.  Data commonly comes from mainframes this way.

Is there a way to tell the schema the record length?  Or Do I have to create
a conversion procedure?

Thanks,
Mike

create

The Schema file *does* contain the record length - eg, the following has
recordlength = 30:

[Table1]
Filetype=Delimited
Delimiter="
Separator=,
CharSet=ascii
Field1=Field1,Char,10,00,00
Field2=Field2,Char,10,00,10
Field3=Field3,Char,10,00,20

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You will have to write your own import routine. The BDE ASCII driver only
works with text files (files in which each record ends with cr/lf.

Bill

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Thanks!  Thats what I was afraid of.

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