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Re: Order of DBGET
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:57:54 -0600
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At 08:46 AM 11/10/2003 -0700, fred White wrote:
>On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 06:43 AM, Tom Brandt wrote:
>
>>Per,
>>
>>A chained DBGET will return detail records in chronological order
>>(i.e.,
>>the order in which they were written), unless you have a sort item in
>>the
>>chain, or you do something to rewrite records in the dataset, such as
>>repack the dataset.
>
>Adager's repack maintains the chronological order.
>
>I don't know about other utilities' repack.

<plug>

DBGeneral's repack, as well as it's compress feature maintains the
chronology of
All detail chains.

<\plug>

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