tab as delimiter for load statement

The recent discussion of delimiters in output reminds me: there seems to be (yet another) minor incompatibility between isql 4.00 and 4.10.UC1. I have some scripts that import data files that have columns separated by tabs. My script sets up the delimiter using (with a tab between the quotes): DBDELIMITER=" " export DBDELIMITER and the runs isql on a script that includes LOAD statements. This worked fine in 4.00 (and earlier), but with 4.10.UC1 I get an error message: 10099: Invalid delimiter. Do not use '\\\\', hex digits (0-9, A-F, a-f), or space. 847: Error in load file line 1. Apparently 4.10.UC1 lumps tab together with space, and doesn't accept tab as a delimiter. It's easy, of course, to use sed to change the tabs to '|'s, and then I don't even have to set DBDELIMITER. But it's a nuisance for anyone who has scripts like this; hopefully a future revision of 4.10 can restore the previous behavior. Or at least correct the error message to include tab as one of the delimiters that isn't allowed ;-) For completeness: this is on a sun4, SunOS 4.1.2. -- Harry Bochner bochner@das.harvard.edu