Erasing Portable subfile

[Robert Mills]

You have a file created by a non-Powerhouse program.
File does not exist in the dictionary.
Needs to be read by Powerhouse.

We do that on MPE/iX quite often.

regards,

Robert W.Mills
Systems Development Manager
Windsong Services
(020) 8309 3604


powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> I can't fully understand why you would want to do something like that?
> Can you explain why?
> 
> Cheers,
> Brett.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> rsfrench@verizon.net
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 11:55 a.m.
> To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject: Erasing Portable subfile
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to erase the data portion of a
> portable subfile (on Unix) while maintaining the dictionary structure?
> Typically these subfiles exist as 3 files something.dat, something.sd
> and something.idx. Can I simply remove the dat file and recreate with
> touch? Or do i have to recreate? Thanks.
> 
> Richard S. French
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