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  3. July 2002

Re: IFS in RPG

Getting a little off the subject, but do the API's allow you to read
directly from tape? Or CD-ROM?  Just by changing the file name? e.g.
/home/file.txt vs /QOPT...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Buck Calabro" <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: RE: IFS in RPG


> In my case, the I/O really is trivial, and the vast bulk of the
> processing goes to decoding the messages.  The beauty of doing it this way
> is that my decoding is device independent.  It doesn't matter if the raw
> data comes from the IFS, a CD-ROM or a tape drive (yes I have to deal with
> all of these.)  The I/O bit is all that changes; the decoding service
> program doesn't care one whit.

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