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Re: Difference in results using select, count or setRange

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From: Ken Chan
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 00:00
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Steve Koterski wrote:
> If you look at a table
> file in a hexidecimal file viewer, you should see nothing but data and
> spaces. If you see any other characters -- formatting characters or
> characters with an ASCII decimal value below 32 or greater than 127 --
> suspect them as the culprit. You should especially never see a NULL
> character (ASCII decimal 0) embedded between field values in the table
> file.

No longer true with the DBF7 format, which supports null fields.

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From: supportinfo@inprise.com (Ken Chan)
Subject: Re: Difference in results using select, count or setRange
Date: 1998/07/27
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