Re: HELP - Import/Export Advice Needed

From: Scott Mattes <SMattes_at_NAVSEALOG.I-Net.com>
Date: 1995/07/27
Message-ID: <3v7r2o$gcc_at_pubxfer2.news.psi.net>#1/1


Probably SET LINESIZE to some BIG number would help.

as360512_at_orion.yorku.ca (Manny Pires) wrote:

>On 21 Jul 1995 13:41:44 GMT, you wrote:
 

>>>>The simplest solution would be to do create a delimited flat-file. I
>>think access will take either tab-delimited or comma-separated-values.
>>To create such a file try something like this...
 

>>SET FEEDBACK OFF
>>SET HEADING OFF
>>SPOOL mytable.csv
>>SELECT '"'||fname||'","'||lname||'","'||phone||'"'
>>FROM mytable
>>/
>>SPOOL off

> Thanks for the help. The solution did work except for fields in
>my SELECT statement which were of the LONG format. For some reason,
>the flat-file truncated the information. Is there any way of
>preventing that from happening?
 

>Manny
Received on Thu Jul 27 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST

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