Thank you, Austin. Labmask and your code would certainly be one way
of doing it. I had known about Nick's labutilities at one point but it
was hiding among the dust-bunnies in my memory.
My method was to create an ado that:
* -preserve-d the original file
* -use-ed the code-desc file
* used -file write- to write a temporary dofile which contained
* a label definition for each unique code-desc combination
* restored the original file
* applied the label definition dofile against the codes in the original file
The plus of this method is that it doesn't involve a merge and uses
existing commands.
DC Elliott
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