RE: qzshsystem api

 From the text on the API, it seems it is running qsh with the command you
give it. qsh works with EBCDIC, so that should not be the problem. But
we've all been shoulded on, right?

It does mention that the return value is from waitpid(). It's actually the
second parameter on that API. There are a number of macros (C-type) in
member WAIT of file SYS in QSYSINC. How are you at converting C macros to
RPG?  Heh!  Let me know if you need help there. They're binary ANDs of the
value with some masks.

You might try the C mailing list.

At 11:00 AM 4/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Joe,
>
>I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as
>specifying options(*string). I really wish the
>message would tell me what it is trying to run.
>My best guess is that the command needs to be
>passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper
>for the translation API only to find out it
>is something else.
>
>Thanks,
>
>David Morris
>
> >>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 04/05/02 10:37 AM >>>
> > From: Joel Fritz
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()?  I was playing
>around
> > with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't.  Using the
> > prototype below, I
> > passed in a command string, the call executed successfully--well, it
> > returned 7--and nothing happend.  I tried sending a directory listing
>to a
> > file and calling a program that created a small text file.
> >
> > Dqzhsystem        pr            10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem')
> > D cmdstring                       *   value  options(*string)
>
>I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at the end.  Did
>you
>make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of your command string?
>
>Joe
>
>
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