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Re: Technical Question: Use of AS/SET - Field lengths

Gerald,

The data structure comments are correct.  Because AS/Set generates RPGIII 
code, the biggest field you can have in any given program is 256 bytes.

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC? USA
E-mail:? DAsmussen@xxxxxxx

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yourself on fire." -- Fred Shero

In a message dated 4/16/2003 9:51:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Gerald.2.Lewis@xxxxxxx writes:

> I have a Alphanumeric field 'RPTEXT' in a Physical file which is 4096 long.
> I need to display the contents of this field on screen. I need to display
> 78 characters from this field at a time. I was hoping to load the contents
> of this field into an 4096 long but I am not able to define a field 4096
> long in AS/Set.
> 
> Any thoughts?
>

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