Re: Spl2stmf and HPT

The output of HPT is usually some flavor of ASCII. Maybe that's why it looks like "gibberish" to you?

Possibly you just need to mark the IFS file with a proper CCSID after it's done, and tools like DSPF or EDTF will view it properly?

Regarding your change... are you certain that the data is null-terminated? In my experience with the HPT API, it normally is not, it's just raw binary data. You should not be using %STR here... unless I'm misunderstanding.


On 4/20/2014 6:00 PM, Jack Tucky wrote:

I downloaded a program called Spl2Stmf that uses the spool file API's to
read a spool file and write an IFS file.

I'm trying to modify so I can just read the spool file in RPG to look for
some keywords.

I changed this line which wrote the STMF:

EVAL bytesw = write(fd : xbufspc_p : hptxbuflena)
To this:
String = %str(xbufspc_p : hptxbuflena);

But I only see gibberish in the String. I'm guessing that the write command
in the original example did some conversion when it wrote to the IFS.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Maybe I need to strip out the HPT
completely as I'm just reading the spool file in the program? The original
download save file link is broken however.

http://homepage1.nifty.com/uzaemon/#download

Now that I think more this is overkill and I just need something to open and
read the spool file.

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