Re: delta additions to the products & pricing files

[Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>]

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Eeek!  I've got another 1500 records to add to both products and pricing, I'd rather not have to do it via
HTML tags...

So I gather that I must do a complete reload with both the existing and new records?  Is that correct?

Barry

Thompson-Jordan wrote:

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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>     ******
> >
> > 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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