RE: RPG CGI -- RPG400-L

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If you are going to use email, which isn't what I would call a reliable EDI method, have them send the inventory update in an attached file and then read through that for the particular items that you need to update. This is just my first thought. I don't think one would want to parse through the actual email including all of the header information. Ask him if he has the capability to FTP then you could just have him FTP to your machine and PUT a file in the IFS that contains the inventory updates.

But to answer you question in short, yes you can use the read() C API function in an RPG pgm.

Aaron Bartell

-----Original Message-----
From: tomh@simas.com [mailto:tomh@simas.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 4:13 PM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: RPG CGI

We use our 400 as an SMTP and POP3 server. Can I use APIs to read thru the body of some emails, extracting some information? We have a customer who'd like to send us inventory updates in an email.

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