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Re: asdbget

  • Subject: Re: asdbget
  • From: Terrence Enger <tenger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:36:30 -0500
 
At 10:31 AM 2000/02/09 -0500, pcunnane@learningco.com wrote:
[snip]
>                            The formats returned from these APIs are 
>     guaranteed not to change between OS/400 releases.
[snip]

Actually, what I remember reading is that IBM will try to change the
returned format only by adding fields after the end of the fields defined
in the format for the previous release.  Thus, a program which uses the
format-length returned by the API can continue to work across release updates.

                           cheers,
                            Terry

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