RE: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV

Presumably this is open to contributions from others?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 7:28 PM
>To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Re: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
>
>
>Thats what I am trying to do with my Open Source/400 Project
>http://www.springfieldtn.net/users/leslier/
>
>I am currently offering a menu system but as I get more time I will be
>offering my interpretation of API wrappers, and loads of utilities!
>
>
>Alan Campin wrote:
>> 
>> The thing that comes up for me in this discussion is why are 
>we reinventing
>> the same code again and again?
>> 
>> A week ago, I put out a message on an IFS service program 
>that I would be
>> glad to send to anyone who wants it, compiled and ready to 
>use. The library
>> has been in use for over a year and others have written the 
>same thing.
>> 
>> We shouldn't be having to write the same stuff again and 
>again. That is the
>> whole concept of ILE. Build it once and reuse.
>> 
>> As I have said before, we need a GNU library for AS/400 ILE programs.
>> 
>> Almost wonder if this should come from or lead by IBM.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 11:21 AM
>> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
>> Subject: RE: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
>> 
>> Helps if you are familiar with C file I/O.
>> 
>> I think it's the only way to get at files in the IFS through 
>RPG without
>> copying them to a database file first.  I like this kind of 
>thing because it
>> shows how ILE give us useful tools we never had before and 
>enables us to use
>> them in a language we do know.
>> 
>> The scary thing for me is that I still haven't learned to 
>use the old tools
>> very well.
>> 
>> -------------------------------------------
>> A mind is a terrible thing to use.
>> 
>> Joel Fritz
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.goddard.edu]
>> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:39 AM
>> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>> > Subject: Re: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
>> >
>> >
>> > I know, I know, we gotta keep up, we can't be old-fashioned,
>> > we gotta get
>> > with the program...  but gee whizzzzz...
>> >
>> > where's there any RPG at all in this mystifying piece of
>> > RPGized-C++ code?
>> >  I'd bet that there are not 5 out of 100 qualified RPG
>> > programmers that
>> > can even begin to understand what is happening here.
>> >
>> > If someone asked me to do the same function in real RPG code
>> > I would be
>> > absolutely stuck.
>> >
>> > _______________________
>> > Booth Martin
>> > boothm@earth.goddard.edu
>> > http://www.spy.net/~booth
>> > _______________________
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > MSievers@promega.com
>> > Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
>> > 01/13/2000 11:11 AM
>> > Please respond to RPG400-L
>> >
>> >
>> >         To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
>> >         cc:
>> >         Subject:        Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
>> >
>> >
>> > D errnoP          S               *
>> > D errno           S             10I 0 BASED(errnoP)
>> >
>> > C                   Eval      
>FileHandle=open(%addr(FilePath):oflag)
>> > C                   EVAL      errnoP = errnoF
>> >
>> >
>> >>
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