Kbase P120496: Using INPUT THROUGH to read data from gzip utility corrupts first chunk of data
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
16/11/2006 |
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Status: Unverified
FACT(s) (Environment):
Progress 9.x
OpenEdge 10.x
Sun Solaris SPARC
SYMPTOM(s):
Using INPUT THROUGH to read data from gzip utility
Reading data into MEMPTR
Writing data from MEMPTR back to disk file
Data being read out of zip file is an XML document
Chunk of data from beginning of XML document is missing
CAUSE:
The INPUT THROUGH statement was invoking gzip -dc SomeZipFile and some binary data was being displayed before the real file
FIX:
Change the code to invoke gzip with the -dca parameter instead of -dc. The 'a' tells gzip to dump in ASCII mode