In my experience you can write a longer check file with any editor also the internal editor, but the part above and beyond 64kb gets stripped of as soon as start using it in association with the QES file e.g. when you create a rec file or start entering data. Henriette
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-----Original Message----- From: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca [mailto:epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca] Sent: 20 August 2006 16:58 To: epidata-list@lists.umanitoba.ca Subject: RE: [EpiData-list] best text editor for complicated check files
The manual says that there is a 64kb limit to the size of a check file. Is this true if one uses an external editor or just the EpiData internal editor?
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I have several people entering data to a common structure at different sites. They email me the .rec files which I then combine into one file periodically. It seems as though I need to combine the files 2 at a time. Is it possible to combine them in one step? Are commands available such that a command file could do the task? Another option is to merge the files in SAS after converting the file 2 at a time, but that, too, would take several steps.
Richard Herrell NIMH
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Richard, You can use Analysis to merge the files. It's easy to do manually:
cd c:\directory with the files read file1 append file2 append file3 * etc savedata mergefile close
If your file names are always the same, you can put those commands into a .pgm file to do this.
If the file names change, it can be semi-automated. Using good old DOS, it is relatively simple to have a batch file create the .pgm file to do this. With .pgm files, you can also do the append for any number of files in a directory in a way that you only have to enter the file names one at a time. (more complicated, but I've done it).
Jamie Hockin Public Health Agency of Canada
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I have several people entering data to a common structure at different sites. They email me the .rec files which I then combine into one file periodically. It seems as though I need to combine the files 2 at a time. Is it possible to combine them in one step? Are commands available such that a command file could do the task? Another option is to merge the files in SAS after converting the file 2 at a time, but that, too, would take several steps.
Richard Herrell NIMH
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