FCOPY is still a CM program.  I don't think PRINT is.

David Knispel
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From: Leonard S. Berkowitz <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:34 PM
Subject: PRINT vs. FCOPY


> I need to extract the last record of a file into a second file.
>
> I can use
>
> PURGE file2
> FILE file2;SAVE
> PRINT file1;OUT=*file2;UNN;START=-1
>
> or
>
> PURGE file2
> SETVAR EOF_FILE1 FINFO ("file1","EOF) - 1
> FCOPY FROM=file1;TO=file2;SUBSET=!EOF_FILE1,1;NEW
>
> I assume that behind the scenes PRINT is doing stuff implicitly that I
have to
> do explicitly for FCOPY.
>
> Which method is faster or more efficient or better. Is there a better way?
Is
> there any limitation to PRINT that would hurt me while FCOPY would not?
There
> used to be some issue with PRINT that would take the first 6 or 8 digits
in a
> file as line numbers, but I believe that this has been remedied.
>
> Or is this a trivial matter?
>
> Thanks.
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> Leonard S. Berkowitz
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