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mfcobol2002

mfcobol2002

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Feb 3, 2003
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Respected Gentlemen,

In files Microfocus IDX format " 3 " or " 4 " how to recover an item excluded by the declaration DELETE?

Respectfully
 
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This is a tough one. The base file (the one that does not have the .IDX extension) is in variable length relative file format. You can process this without the indices by changing the ORGANIZATION to RELATIVE and changing the rest of the syntax appropriately. Unfortunately, RELATIVE and INDEXED both use the same deleted record flags. I have a program which reads a RELATIVE file using byte-stream processing. It could be modified to read the deleted records as well as the active records. If you are interested, I could e-mail you the source code.
 
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