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  3. February 2013

Re: Passing a file as a parameter to a second Program

On 2013/2/4 3:30 PM, RPGLIST wrote:
It does Scott, however it does reaise the question though when passing the
parm (file) is it actually passing it or just a pointer to the data? IE:
If I pass a large file, how much of a load is it going to put on the
system?

Then On 2013/2/4 4:28 PM, Anderson, Kurt wrote:

"A file is always passed by reference."

Just to clarify Kurt's response, the "file" here is RPG's internal information about the file. The _data_ in the file is not passed at all, not even by reference.


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