On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:50:42 -0500 , Timothy Hoefner <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>My question is simple but I've got to have the correct answer so that I =
>may or may not win an argument with our DBA.
>
>Is it possible to programmatically delete automatic masters without =
>deleting the associated details?
>

You could probably do this by using some combination of the HPF...
file intrinsics, and bypassing the IMAGE intrinsics altogether. But
.. your program will need SM capability to delete a privileged file,
I bet.