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  • Subject: Re: Creating a file in the IFS
  • From: "Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:09:31 -0700

Thanks Tim!

From: Tim McCarthy <timm@as400ftp.com>

> The open/close/open is neccessary only if you want to have the CCSID you
> requested respected on your writes. Otherwise you're good to go.
>
> > From: Peter Dow [SMTP:pcdow@yahoo.com]
> > I just started using the IFS API's, and some of the non-manual reading
> > I've
> > done (e.g. this mail list) suggests that in order to create and write
> > to a
> > file in the IFS, it is necessary to open it with the O_CREAT flag,
> > close it,
> > then open it again for writing.
> >
> > As far as I could see in the manual, this is not a requirement of the
> > API.
> > And in fact, I wrote a program that successfully opens an IFS stream
> > file
> > with O_CREAT + O_WRONLY, writes to it, and closes it.

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