Thus it was written in the epistle of Wirt Atmar,
> Michael J. Riley writes:
>
> > I'm trying to eliminate 85,000+ duplicate records on our system.  I'm
> > curious
> >  if the RECNO (32-bit Integer) remains constant for the life of that record?
> >
> >  What I would like to do is create a file of RECNO's that we need to delete
> > and
> >  then use this file as input into a program to do a Delete (Direct). Is this
> >  feasible? Does RECNO for a particular record stay the same today, tomorrow,
> >  and two weeks from now?
>
> Michael,
>
> It took me a little while to understand what you were asking, but I eventually
> deduced that RECNO is a data item in an IMAGE database.

With due respect, sir, I think Michael is referring to the 32-bit IMAGE
record number (see DBGET mode 4).  If he builds a list of these record numbers
now and does a DBGET mode 4 followed by a DBDELETE on those numbers sometime
with in the Atmarian month, can he be assured of deleting the correct records?

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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