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C$FORMAT

The C$FORMAT option determines the default file format for actions performed using the C$COPY, C$DELETE, and RENAME file handling library routines.

Syntax:

C$FORMAT = format

Parameters:

format

The file format used for operations performed by the library routines C$COPY, C$DELETE, and RENAME. Must be one of:

0: Default format for the operating system (identical to 8)
1: C-ISAM
3: Micro Focus default indexed file format
4: Optimized format for fast duplicate key handling
5: Btrieve with ANSI (Windows) or Reserved (UNIX)
6: Btrieve without ANSI (Windows) or Reserved (UNIX)
8: Large indexed file format
9: Indexed with single key, non-duplicate, key ordered records
10: Reserved
11: Mainframe print file format
12: Large indexed file format with separate index file
13: Reserved
14: Heap file
15: ESDS
16: Extended ESDS
17: Vision
18: Microsoft SQL Server
19: Oracle
20: DB2
21: RM
22-255: Reserved

Properties:

Default:

Comments:

You can specifiy this option in [XFH-DEFAULT] or any other section of the configuration file.

When you call one of the file handling routines, IDXFORMAT defaults to the value of C$FORMAT, but can then be overriden if specified in the file handling configuration file.