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Emmanuel:
Shane has already corrected me on how absurd my thinking was in
considering 127k to be a large file.
R,
John A.M. Darnell
Software Development
In honor of THE MATRIX RELOADED:
In the first movie, close to the climax, Keanu Reeves and Carrie Ann Moss
take a harrowing express ride up an elevator by explosively disconnecting
the counterweight. Just before activating the detonator, Reeves says
something. What was it that he said?
Emmanuel <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Where goes the "$"?
At 5:35 PM -0500 21/05/03, John A.M. Darnell wrote:
>Bill:
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> After some agonizing testing I figured out that what happens is that
>even though the documentation says that a READ...BEFORE command does not
>read in the delimiter, the fact seems to be that it does, and then
>discards it (i.e. does not provide it to the program).
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> Unfortunately the file is potentially huge (the biggest one on record
>is 127k) so I have to take the data a chunk at a time.
Do you mean 127 GB?
Emmanuel
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