Programmatic creation of binary dump files

[Drammy]

Hi all,

You know the binary dump files the data admin tool creates when it dumps an openedge/progress database?

Well I want to create them programmatically from data from a third party system and then load them into an OpenEdge/Progress db using the data admin tool.

Anyone got any ideas about whether this is possible?

 

[TomBascom]

They're just bits so sure, it's "possible". But the format is pretty much undocumented, subject to change and so on and so forth.

Why do you want to do this? Why, specifically, do you think you want to use the binary format? I'll go out on a limb and guess that you are under the impression that it is zillions of times faster than the ascii format. If so you might want to try benchmarking it before you invest much energy in trying to develop your own binary format.