Re: Unix APIs, stream files, codepages and the like

Joe,

If you call open() with the right parms, it'll do the EBCDIC to ASCII
conversion for you...   

Here are links to some examples I posted in the RPG400-L mailing
list at midrange.com over the past few years :)

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200003/msg00392.html
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/199908/msg00628.html

You can probably find quite a bit more info if you did a search of
the RPG400-L archives.

If you're interested, I could also send you a copy of the /copy 
member I use for stream files...  it's posted in one of those links
above, but I've probably fixed few bugs in it since that message
was posted 2 years ago. :)  If you're interested, just ask.

Sorry I didn't reply earlier, but I didn't notice the thread until just
now....


On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Joe Pluta wrote:

> All done with this phase.  I now have a generic program that I can use to
> write an EBCDIC stream file.  I can then use the CPY command to convert it
> from EBCDIC to ASCII.  I suspect that with a little more work, I could
> figure out how to get around the CPY step, but this is perfectly acceptable
> for the time being.  It works, and that's pretty darned good.  So now I'm
> generating text files from RPG, and that's what the last two days was all
> about.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who helped.  It was a heck of a learning curve, but it's
> paying off.
> 
> Joe
> 

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