Re: DBDELIMITER

I've verified that I have gotten the TAB character into the DBDELIMITER correctly. Yes, this isn't easy. I'm using a K-shell, not C-shell, so I've gone a different path. What I ended up doing is changing the IFS environment variable to only space. This is the variable that determines what the shell interprites as white space. Once that is done I can include TAB in an export statement. export DBDELIMITER="<tab>" I verified that I have a TAB by testing with a statement: echo :$DBDELIMITER: After I set the variable I tried loading the data file. It's a fairly small file, only in the order of 8k rows, so I don't have the size problem you refer to, but I get an error on the first line which indicates that Informix has trouble with the DBDELIMITER: 10099: Invalid delimiter. Do not use '\\\\', hex digits (0-9, A-F, a-f), or spa 847: Error in load file line 1. I would appriciate any other ideas people have, and send thanks to those people who've responded. Chris turner@grad.csee.usf.edu