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Code-page Trailers

Some table dump files contain code-page trailers, which tell Progress the code page of the table dump file’s data. When you load such a table dump file, Progress reads the code-page trailer, determines the code page of the file’s data, and interprets the data correctly. In the current version of Progress, when you dump a database using the Data Dictionary utility, the resulting table dump file contains a code-page trailer. Figure 6–1 shows a typical code-page trailer with the code page name “IBM850.”

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filename=customer
records=00000033
ldbname=xl
timestamp=1994/03/30-10:20:03
numformat=.
dateformat=mdy-1900
cpstream=ibm850
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0000006570 

Figure 6–1: A Typical Code-page Trailer

Other table dump files do not contain code-page trailers. When you load such a table dump file, you must tell Progress the code page of the file’s data by using the -cpstream startup parameter. To determine the code page of a table dump file that lacks a code-page trailer, see Understanding Code Pages."


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