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- From: DEVRIES@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU (Ernie DeVries)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Question about memo field in Paradox 4.0
- Message-ID: <01GOKQ548H02000312@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 16:19:42 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- According to the Paradox 4.0 documentation, you cannot append an ASCII delimited
- file to a table with a memo field (or binary either). It would appear that if
- you imported using Delimited instead of AppendDelimited that Paradox would
- truncate your memo entry at 255 charachters and place it in an A255 type field.
-
- If you use the Text type import, which wraps long fields onto successive
- records, there may be a way to use a PAL script to concatenate the entries
- back together to make a real memo field entry.
-
- This looks like a good candidate for a product like Conduit from Kallista. I
- don't know if they have a version out yet for Paradox 4.0.
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