Erasing Portable subfile

[Johnson, Tracy]

To elaborate further, sometimes I use it as a cheesy way of entering data with QTP.

Example: I build a portable subfile with 1 record.  I can go into EDITOR, delete the one record, and start entering records manually or by pasting.  (Or more practically, start adding records using record 1 as a delimiter template, then delete the first before saving the file.) 

Then I can go back into QTP and use the subfile as an OUTPUT ADD back into the database.

BT


Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com
> [mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com]On Behalf Of Robert Mills
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:57 AM
> To: Brett Greiner (Kinetix); rsfrench@verizon.net;
> powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: Erasing Portable subfile
> 
> 
> 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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> > [mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of
> > 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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