Is there an API (or something) to Retrieve a *msgd from a *msgf?

This tip from a Monday Search400 e-mail 
>[1]  "Updating QDSIGNON"
>This tip may be helpful for those of you looking for an 
>alternative way to customize the sign-on screen to become 
>more company-friendly. Using screen shots and lively 
>descriptions, you easily understand what the writer is 
>talking about. He also includes a link to the code he used 
>to create the Display File used in the article -- a helpful 
>added feature.
>SOURCE: 400 Times
>http://www.400times.co.uk/Documents/updating_qdsignon.htm

Got me thinking.  So I jazzed up my signon display.  Fine, but now it needs
to be maintained as the coolness (to me) of this method is the ability to
send variable information to the users through the sign on screen.  So I
wrote a program to maintain the contents of the layout I settled on, using
the QC2LE system proc to do the CHGMSGD's.  But the problem is I can't find
a way to retrieve the existing msgd's to populate the screen with at
startup.

Is there an API or some other method (other than dspmsgd to *print and the
read the output) to get the first level message info into my program to
populate the 'Usage "B"' fields in a DSPF?

This is a cool deal, signon screens that can be changed without recompiling.
Just change the msgd's.  With *libl on the dspf keyword you can have as many
varieties as you have library/msgf, for example every subsystem. 

Tom Westdorp
AS/400 Senior Programmer/Analyst 
IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Programmer
IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer 
Internal Telephone # 04-6859
Voice: (702) 221-6859
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tom.westdorp@stationcasinos.com 



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