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CPYTOIMPF

Copy to import file.

I got asked to use this command to create a semi-colon delimitted extract file. The idea was to save space by avoiding blanks. But it keeps all blanks, even on numeric fields. so I'm worse off than with a fixed position file (size wise.

We're on OS 4 release 3, does it get improved in later versions? Any obvious parameter I've missed.

If I've got say text 30 and numeric 13.2 I end up with

"ANDY ";13.2 ;..... etc

I tried making the text fields variable length fields but the command included the max field length it seems.

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