RE: Determining spool file record length

That's what I ended up doing.

However, when I reprint the report I need to know the actual length. I ended
up using a small RPGLE program which rips through the file and determines
the  longest record. Not fancy but it works.

Albert York                          



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[SMTP:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Jedrzejewicz
        Sent:   Friday, October 08, 2004 9:53 AM
        To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
        Subject:        Re: Determining spool file record length

        How about just making the physical pretty wide (say 2048 bytes)?
The
        likelihood of a report going larger than that is really small, and
        assuming the file is temporary the wasted space is trivial.

        If you don't do that but do get the actual length, remember to add a
        couple of bytes to account for formatting codes.

        On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:47:55 -0700, York, Albert
        <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
        > I need to determine the record size (characters per line) of a
spool file,
        > so I can create a physical file of the correct length when I use
the CPYSPLF
        > command.
        > 
        > I have tried using WRKSPLFA to a print file but it doesn't always
have the
        > actual number of characters, only the maximum for the print file.
        > 
        > Thanks,
        > 
        > Albert York
        > 
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