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If you are using ILE RPG, I'd recommend the PREFIX keyword on your external file datastructures to rename your fields into unique names. bob@cstoneindy.com on 06/04/99 09:00:59 PM Please respond to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@Internet cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: RPG SPECAIAL files -- anybody used them? David, I suspect you will be saying the same thing about TCP/IP sockets very soon. After a bit of experience, it will become your "protocol of choice". Re substituting data structures for the records, that was the method I was going to use. But the idiot who wrote this program 6 years ago (me), did not use unique field names. That tends the croak the DS's. And break a lot of code. When I tripped over the SPECIAL file, I when "Ureake (sp?)"! It sure looks like an easy way around my problem. I am working on it right now and hope to know by Tomorrow how feasible it is. Don't you just love deadlines? And this is the worst kind. Self inflicted! Bob -----Original Message----- From: David Gibbs <david@midrange.com> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com> Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 6:17 PM Subject: Re: RPG SPECAIAL files -- anybody used them? >At 10:41 AM 6/4/99 , you wrote: >>I am getting ready to convert a rather large RPG APPC program over to >>TCP/IP sockets. The IP part is a piece of cake. > >Relatively speaking :) > >>However, the record formats are not. > >Actually, they aren't that difficult. I'm in the process of finishing up a >similar project... and we just substituted data structures for the record >formats. > >My comms routines have to do both APPC and TCP/IP, so the data structures >work well. > >david > >+--- >| This is the Midrange System Mailing List! >| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. >| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. >| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. >| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com >+--- > +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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