RE: die() RE: rpg <-> ifs sample...

Barbara & Scott, thank you, for your time, in answering these questions...  

It was very much appreciated..

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barbara Morris [SMTP:bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:57 PM
> To:   rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:      Re: die() RE: rpg <-> ifs sample...
> 
> "Hatzenbeler, Tim" wrote:
> > 
> > ... And
> > would it be considered as a LR *ON or *OFF
> > 
> 
> Short answer: LR *ON.
> 
> Long answer: Depends what you mean.  For any RPG main procedures that
> are actually on the program stack at the time of the escape message,
> RPG's cancel handler would do LR *ON processing (close files etc).  If
> you had other RPG main procedures that had previously ended with LR off,
> but were currently not active, they would still "have LR off".
> 
> For example, say your program had modules MAIN, MOD1, MOD2, and MOD3,
> (all having RPG main procedures) and they open files FILE1 FILE2 and
> FILE3 respectively.  Procedure MAIN has called procedure MOD1 then MOD2,
> both returning with LR off.  Now MAIN calls MOD3 and MOD3 calls the exit
> function.  MOD3 will end LR ON and MOD1 and MOD2 will not end at all. 
> FILE3 will be closed but FILE1 and FILE2 will still be open, assuming
> the activation group didn't end.
> 
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