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[Dan Shannon]

We seem to have problems with reading and writing genfile - keep getting either 035 - DATA NOT ALPHA IN FILE or 038 - NOT ENOUGH DATA IN BUFFER - EXTERNAL FILE errors

Does anyone have a solution or the right GENFILE layout? We're using 4.0r541 on SCO.

Thanks

Dan Shannon

[Wim Soutendijk]

You will have to issue a ENABLE(&#@SEPEF) logic prior to reading GENFILE in Change or Add mode

[Chris Pepper]

Further to Wim's message...
That's because GENFILE should be defined as EXTERNAL. External format files assume that the records are fixed length and PRO-IV errors if the record is not as long as it is supposed to be (it seems to throw away the last incomplete field). The &#@SEPEF is just a kludge to let routines like Import/Export find value variables in the records.

[Dan Shannon]

Thanks gentlemen, I have it now!