RE: System 38 PF and LF

Eh, well, not exactly.....

The best response here is "it depends"...hear it before?   I've taken MANY
MANY MANY S38 Pf's and Lf's, not even dropped the S38 part of the moniker
and just recompiles them...they worked great!  The BIGGEST thing I found
is that you'll find lots of "."'s in the S/38 stuff....depending on how it
was originally written...so, just make the conversion to / and switch the
lib/obj....ditto with dspf's....

Syntax is the same....

Give it a rip on a few files and see what you get via DBU or DFU or
whatever....I think you'll be surprised just how simple it really is....

Don in DC metro

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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Buck Calabro wrote:

> On Monday, June 08, 1998 5:37 PM, Mary Koetting 
> [SMTP:Mary_Koetting@mail.mchcp.org] wrote:
> > We have some files/programs defined as System 38. If we omit the 38
> > portion
> > and recompile, what kind of repercussions can we expect? Appreciate any
> > suggestions.
> 
> Don't do it.
> 
> 1.  All the qualifiers (field, file, record format) will need to be 
> changed from file.library to library/file
> 2.  There are differences in the default values of the native versions of 
> some commands: SBMJOB comes immediately to mind...
> 3.  RPG/38 is not very different from RPG/400: that should compile "as-is" 
> but watch for embedded CL commands!
> 
> Carefully read the manuals on converting from /38 to native mode before 
> you change anything; especially CL programs!
> 
> Buck Calabro
> Commsoft, Albany, NY
> mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
> 
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