Problem accessing IFS with APIS

[afvaiv <afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,
I have 2 problems somehow related:

Problem1:
I've been implementing a program to access IFS files following two 
sample programs writen by Julian Monypenny in the Spanish version of 
News400 magazine recently.
One of them, a simplified version of  a CPYF-like program, I cannot make 
it work.
Let's take, e.g., directory   /etc  , which has a file in it, named 
"magic" of type STMF .

To read a file I pass its full name, which I've ckecked and gets 
correctly to the program, eg     /etc/magic  
The handle = openStreamFile (...) is rejected (-1), and I've checked the 
ERRNO is 3025 which means "no such file or library"
Also tried with other files, with same result.

Am I supposed to pass the file name as      /etc/magic.stmf      or 
something like it, i.e. with some extension? Tried different 
combinations to no help.

I've writen another program, just to write a file of my own, just to 
test the previous one, and wrote a new file as  
   /etc/Prueba         (no extension, "P" uppercase, just in case it 
matters...)

After execution, it shows up in    wrklnk  '/etc'
So, I go back to first program, and try to read it from   /etc/Prueba   
 and again get same 3025  error.

Any clues or suggestions?

Problem2:
By the way, the file /etc/Prueba   I wrote was made up of 5 consecutive 
writes with  " putStreamFile " of a fixed text of all 26 capital letters 
of the alphabet. When I did the    wrklnk  '/etc'   and got to Prueba, 
did a display (5)  and what I got was the 130 letters in a row... all in 
one single string.

What I want to end up reading will be some text files passed from a PC 
application, which I assume will be in some "plain text" format, may be 
as    "xxx . txt" or the like, so I expect it to have different lines 
with CR+LF at end of each record.

If, in the end, I manage to read that file (assuming I get Problem1 
first solved...), reading it with   "getStreamFile" will  read it as a 
hugh buffer (of the size I give) or will I get it one record at the time???

TIA

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Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
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