Re: So I tried to CPYTOPCD a *SAVF

[PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (PaulMmn)]

>At 06:59 PM 6/15/97 -0400, Al wrote:
>>Hello All,
>>
>>In response to the request to download the COMMON library, I tried an
>>experiment to save the library to a save file, so I could ZIP it and get a
>>possible size to download.  Given the fact that the internal size of AS/400
>>objects is in 4 K blocks, and the fact that there is a lot of source here,
>>this thing ought to ZIP up famously.
>>
>>It turns out that you can't CPYTOPCD a save file.  How else can I handle
>>this???


You -can- read a savf file from an RPG program...  once you've got the save
file created, you can read it and copy it to another file of the same
length (528 recl?), which you can CPYTOPCD.

At the other end, CPYFROMPCD (FRM?) then use a 2nd program to read the file
and write to a Save File.

We use this trick to copy save files between AS/400s.  Yes, you can use
SNADS functions, but they take so -long- (all that error correction and
retrying).


--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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