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  3. January 2002

Re: unknown block length

From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>
> Problem:  a file is uploaded (binary) from a PC.
> I need to read it in MI to parse out the data.
> The size of the file is not known, I need to read until
> the end. I define a record size of (say) 10000 and
> start reading. I get the CVP5001 exception as usual
> at the end of the file, but the last (incomplete) block
> I don't get. How to get it?
>

a duh question, I think.
It turns out that I had already defined the file
on the AS400 with a different record length
than the one I was trying to read it with.
If I don't do silly things like this, I don't seem
to have the problem. Still, if anybody knows
any "gotchas" related to this....

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