RE: Use of IMPORT with lower case variables

Hans,
O.K., I retried this on V4R3, putting the literal following the IMPORT
keyword and it does work ( I read the new manual). Thanks. 


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> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [SMTP:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 12:41 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Use of IMPORT with lower case variables
> 
> Tim wrote:
> >I have an annoying little problem I've run into before but never
> >resolved. How can I import a lower case named variable defined in a C
> >module into an RPG program? Since RPG converts names to upper case I
> get
> >an error at link time. The manual states that the keyword EXTNAME can
> be
> >used with IMPORT but...IMPORT must be used on a field definition and
> >EXTNAME is not allowed for a field definition.!!
> 
> If you can, move to V4R2.  IMPORT (and EXPORT) now allow you
> to specify a literal which represents the real external name
> of the variable.
> 
> (EXTNAME is used to identify the external file name for an
> externally described data structure.)
> 
> Cheers!  Hans
> 
> Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com
> 
> 
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