Re: Error copying file

Maybe you should delete the stream files before you copy to them?
The error message indicates that the code page of the existing stream file
is not the same as what *PCASCII would calculate.

>From the help text for the *PCASCII option:

     If the stream file exists, this option is valid only
     if the code page associated with the stream file is
     the same as the specified value.  Otherwise, the
     operation will fail.

     If the stream file does not exist, a code page in the
     Microsoft Windows encoding scheme (x4105) is computed.
     (Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, and the Windows 95
     logo are registered trademarks of Microsoft
     Corporation).  This code page is associated with the
     target stream file and is used for data conversion
     if it is requested.  This option allows the resulting
     data to be used by Microsoft Windows applications.

Code page 1252 is the default code page used by Microsoft Windows here in
the US, and probably also in other areas where they use the same character
set, so it's logical that this is what *PCASCII would select.

If you are somehow changing the file to 850, it would cause the error that
you've indicated.

The fix, as I mentioned, is to delete the file first.  Since there's no
file there, you don't have to worry about whether the code page matches.

Another idea would be to use *PCASCII only if the file does not already
exist.  If it does exist, use *STMF instead.


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Tim Kredlo wrote:
>
> At first failure,  both 'destination' files had already existed, as they
> had been created by the previous run.
> The first copy (Tim) worked fine.
> Somehow the 'code page' of the 2nd destination file is now determined to
> be 1252 instead of 850.
>
> What does this mean, how did it happen, and how do I prevent it in the
> future?
>