At 3:08 PM -0700 9/17/04, Newton, Ernie wrote:
>I have a self-describing file, created using Suprtool, it looks like
>this;
>
>PART-NUMBER
>PART-DESCRIPTION
>
>Lets call that file PARTFILE
>
>Now, using $LOOKUP, I want to look in my PARTS dataset for
>a matching PART-NUMBER. When true, I want to UPDATE
>the item DESCRIPTION with PART-DESCRIPTION, from PARTFILE.
>
>I think it would look like this...
>
>GET PARTS
>IF $LOOKUP(blah, blah, blah)
>UPDATE
>EXT DESCRIPTION=PART-DESCRIPTION
>
>Does that work?  I don't want to just "try it and see" for obvious
>reasons.



Hello Ernie,

Is there any particular reason why you didn't contact Robelle tech support
about this?

At any rate, take a look at

  http://www.robelle.com/tips/upd-from-table.html

That should have the information you need, assuming of course that you have
a recent enough version of Suprtool.


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