Re: RE: To read a text file directly

Hmmmm...

This may sound strange, but I find that I don't need to bind to
QC2LE in order to use the IFS or Sockets API.  The "Unix-type"
API's appear to be in the default RPG binding directory.

Granted, I end up binding to QC2LE in order to access the errno,
and strerror functions...

I'm at V3R2.  Is this also true on newer releases of OS/400?



Buck Calabro <mcalabro@commsoft.net> wrote:
>
> Vishal,
> If you mean IFS files, then you can use the C functions open(),
>  close(),
> fstat() and read().  They are in binding directory QC2LE.  Here are
>  some
> prototypes:
>
> Dopen             pr            10i 0 extproc('open')
> D                                 *   value
> D                               10i 0 value
> D                               10u 0 value options(*nopass)
> D                               10u 0 value options(*nopass)
>
> Dread             pr            10i 0 extproc('read')
> D                               10i 0 value
> D                                 *   value
> D                               10u 0 value
>
> Dfstat            pr            10i 0 extproc('fstat')
> D                               10i 0 value
> D                                 *   value
>
> Dclose            pr            10i 0 extproc('close')
> D                               10i 0 value
>
> Look at the Unix-type APIs book for details.
>
> Buck Calabro
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vishal Gupta
> > Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 5:06 AM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: To read a text file directly
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to know that is there any way in ILE RPG to read a text fil
> > directly.
> >
> > What i have done is that i have made a PF with one field and then
>  copying
> > the full text file in that PF and using it in my program.
> > The number of lines in that text file becomes the number of record
>  in the
> >
> > PF.This way it works fine.
> >
> > Is there any direct way to read and write to a text file instead o
> > converting it to PF.
> >
> > Can any one help me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vishal.
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