RE: Reading IFS bin file into an RPG variable

Hi Kyle,

One further point about DSPF -- use F15 to see the CCSID of the file and
change it if necessary.

Peter Dow
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 1:39 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: Reading IFS bin file into an RPG variable
>
>
>
> On 22/01/2006, at 3:16 AM, Kyle Collie wrote:
>
> > If I do a wrklnk on  an IFS file, I see this:
> >
> > GIF89a    ÷     ÿÿÿðíîGFG...
> >
> > But in debug, my temp variable contains this:
> >
> > åñã  /    7        0ÒÓåãå      x¿ÝzÞ^xÐÞ   ~xzwÝ(r)       (í ...
> >
> > Not nearly the same.
> >
> > What am I missing? If is a codepage issue?
>
> When viewing data in binary you can only rely on the hexadecimal code
> points of each character. From the above 3 points you can see that the
> data in debug is the correct output. The data in DSPF has, probably,
> been converted from ASCII to EBCDIC.
>
> Using the F10=Display Hex option in DSPF will show you the hex data.
> This should match the hex output in debug.
>
> NOTE:- On 530 DSPF shows the real Hex data from the file content. On
> some earlier releases DSPF would show the Hex values of the converted
> output which is not much use at all.
>
> NOTE:- On some early releases DSPF only shows Hex output when using a
> 24*80 display device. It will not show hex output in wide-screen
> (27*132) mode--also less than helpful. I see this "oversight" has been
> corrected in 530. I don't know in exactly what release they fixed this.
>
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.

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