Posted by steve auerbach on March 09, 2010 at 08:33:08:
In Reply to: Re: IMAGE files... going away? posted by Bob A on March 09, 2010 at 05:15:02:
I doubt you'll find positioning statements in any formats.
And you should also look for CREATE statements while you're at it. The record size will change to accommodate the ASCII format of the data.
For those of us old enough to remember COBOL, IMAGE has a familial relationship to: Picture usage is Comp-3. In numeric fields each nibble (half a byte) is a number from 0 to 9 and the last nibble is the sign. However, the entire record is IMAGE and string fields carry their length attribute in a ADDITIONAL byte at the front of the field. Which is why string fields are limited to 254(?) bytes. Or is it 255?
"IMAGE" as in the data in the record is as it is stored in memory; not translated to people readable format. How is the data stored in memory today? Only Jim knows and nobody else cares.
Each file can be a maximum of 1MB in length Uploaded files will be purged from the server on a regular basis.