Re: How to call a RPG program from a RPG program?

Hi Jon

Nice to know I'm not crazy - of course, you know what they say about
being paranoid!!

Vern

On 6/20/2012 10:02 AM, Jon Paris wrote:

On 2012-06-20, at 10:51 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I know that I didn't use that format - it's fairly recent, as I recall.

I wonder if the prototype made a difference. As I say, I do remember
passing a varying variable to an API, where RPG took care of conversion
to fixed. Wish I had the code to show y'all - and to verify that it
really happened.

CONST on the proto (or value for that matter) would have done that for

you Vern.

Prior to the *data options most folks did (%Addr(varlen) + 2) as the

address parm for varying being passed as "fixed".

I put "fixed" in quotes because most often the %Len of the varying field

was also being passed to the API to indicate the length of the actual field
passed in these cases.

Jon Paris

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