Re: V5R1 / SNDDST

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

prtdoc is staying....not sure about the rest...

Don in DC

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On Sat, 5 May 2001, Neil Palmer wrote:

> >From my understanding., and an article I can't locate right now, SNDDST, 
> PRTDOC, MRGDOC and commands that were part of OS/400, are not going away.
> 
> ...Neil
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> mandy.shaw@Notability.com
> Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> 2001/05/05 06:39
> Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
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>         To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
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>         Subject:        V5R1 / SNDDST
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> 
> I hope I'm not the only one who's confused, not by the (lamentable)
> disappearance of OV/400 from V5R1, but about which related bits of base
> OS/400 are going as well. Does anyone know the answers to this?
> 
> There are several CL commands which were not shipped as part of OV/400 but
> in base OS/400 and which, as I understand, were 'under threat', e.g.
> MRGDOC, PRTDOC. I have been using these on boxes without OV/400 installed
> for years, creating simple 'shell documents' on boxes with OV/400 
> installed
> and then restoring them to the target machines.
> 
> Assuming that MRGDOC/PRTDOC will disappear, and knowing that editing RFT
> documents with embedded data field instructions will be impossible anyway
> on V5R1, I have just, instead, been setting up some automatic SMTP 
> emailing
> from OS/400 for a customer using some programming to produce appropriately
> formatted output, then SNDDST with the *FILE option, which works
> beautifully on V4R5. Both the customer and I, however, have lingering 
> doubt
> that even this SNDDST functionality will be supported on V5R1. I have some
> V5R1 beta code waiting for a test when someone else has finished with my
> test box, but if anyone can shed any light in the meantime I would be very
> grateful.
> 
> Mandy
> 
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