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Hello Mike,

You wrote:
>Lawson creates a .prt text file on the IFS for every report it creates.
>We want to be able to read that file for some custom java programs. I
>have looked at these before and have noticed that they are EBCDIC files.
>However, one program (RW100) seems to be different. On one job
>(Preliminary) it creates the files as EBCDIC, the other job (Final)
>creates plain text (NOTE: these are the same job except by name). How can
>we determine what type the file is so we can properly read it into our
>java program or fix it so that they are all of one type (EBCDIC or
>ASCII).

Why do you care?  IFS files are translated during reads from the codepage
of the file to the CCSID of the job.  The actual file codepage should be
transparent to you unless you are reading text files in binary mode which
strikes me as silly.

Admittedly, it has been a while since I've read IFS files in Java but I
don't recall it being significantly different from C (or RPG for that
matter).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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