RE: RPG400 write a pc file to Folder

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Buck Calabro wrote:
> 
> The original poster asked if an RPG400 program can directly write to a PC
> folder.  The term "RPG400" has been less than clear in the past.  I was
> trying to say that the RPG language without the EVAL opcode (old RPG) can't
> use read(), write(), etc.
> 
> Of course I was less than clear.  You can certainly use callp instead of
> eval to invoke the C APIs, but then you lose the return code (if any).

Callp?  not with the open(), read(), write() set of APIs you couldn't.
open() returns a file handle thats necessary to call the other functions.
You COULD use callB, but not callP.

eval, of course, is the "right way". :)

Of course, you COULD do it in RPG III by using QHFOPNSF and similar API's.
That only writes to QDLS, but then you could issue a call to QCMDEXC with
a CPY to toss it into root or QOpenSys if you wanted. :)





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