[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Fix the ascii load tools so they automatically switch numeric & date formats if those in .d file don't

[frank.meulblok]

It's quite annoying that you have to restart your loading session if the numeric & date formats in an ascii dump .d file don't match the current session formats, because your load session will either abort (numeric format) or load bad data (date formats). This is also entirely unnecessary: The ascii load tools are ABL-based and the AVM can change these settings at will at runtime. The tools should just pick up the settings from the .d's trailer and change the session's settings to those for the duration of the load.

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