RE: delta additions to the products & pricing files

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

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You can do this with the [data] statement. I believe if you give it a key
that does not yet exist it will add a new record and write the data to the
specified field. To write a whole record you would need a [data] statement
for every field in the record.

Christopher Thompson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Barry Treahy
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 4:44 PM
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> Subject: delta additions to the products & pricing files
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy
> <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******
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> With MV, is it possible to add additional new records to the existing
> products.gdbm file using a products.asc that contains just the new
> records or does the products.asc have to be a complete replacement?  The
> same question applies with the corrosponding records for pricing.gdbm..
>
> If I CAN add new records this way, can I also use this technique to
> update records records?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Barry
>
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