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  • Subject: Re: RPG400-L Digest V3 #74
  • From: Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:41:40 -0800
  • Organization: Pacer International

Hmm... So you're saying, Scott, that it's not their job to show us how
to use these APIs in RPG.  1 page in the beginning of the manual showing
how to declare each variable in each language would be sufficient.  But
we don't even have that.

So, if it's not the job of the API manual to show us how to use them, what
is the job of the API manual?  And, yes, I realize I am splitting hairs, but
how many RPG programers haven't used the APIs just because the documentation
didn't explain how to use them in *their* language, RPG?

I know C, I know binary, I know pointers, but no way could I have told you
to code their 4B as 10i 0!!!


Regards,

Jim Langston

Terry Herrin wrote:
> 
> Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> wrote:
> >You have to remember that these books are not RPG specific.  They are
> >intended to be used by CL, C, COBOL, RPG (etc) programmers.  Its not their
> >job to tell you how to code a 4-byte binary integer in RPG!
> 
> Yeah, yeah, okay, you've beat me into submission.  You win, I give up.
> I'm still learning API's, okay?  That's why I think an API by Example
> book would be valuable, to help those of us who are still learning,
> and that's why I posted the mistake I made, to illustrate the point.
> 
> Terry Herrin
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> New Hanover Regional Medical Center
> Wilmington, NC
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