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

I understand Barbara, I appreciate the response. One thing I notice
though last night while expirementing was that if I pass the file to a
second program its still referencing the same file as contained in the
first program or it seemed that way. I glanced over your article briefly
last night and it seemed to possibly address that issue, so its on my list
of things to read this morning.

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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