In my travels over the years I've seen production company data being
completely trashed by these "quick and dirty" (coding at least is) Suprtool
extracts. I never trusted them and I still don't.

Caveat Emptor (let the buyer beware).

Brian Donaldson.

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:47:07 -0400, Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>The following example shows you how to update an
>image data set based upon data stored in a table.
>
>What you need is a file with the key value and the
>data used to update the image data set
>
>There is more to this example, if you want to see
>the whole works, go into suprtool and
>
>help extract
>
>then
>
>Extract from a Table
>
>table newprices,prodno,file,bosslist,data(price)
>get part-master
>if $lookup(newprices,prodno)
>update
>extract price = $lookup(newprices,prodno,price)
>xeq
>
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