Re: Some C+ help needed for an RPG guy

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From: Westdorp, Tom <Tom.Westdorp@StationCasinos.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, May 31, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: Some C+ help needed for an RPG guy


>Thanks Alexi & Bruce!
>
>Dang C stuff, the field names are like 32 characters and the file name is
>"H"???  What's up with that?
>
>Quirk?  Too busy dreaming up new shapes for brackets to give their copybook
>file a decent name.  :-)
>


Actually, they didn't dream it up, it's a natural name.... if you look at
the way they qualified stuff... it was member.file so, the .h just became a
file. If you look in the QSYSINC library (which should be on your system)
you will see the file H.

It's historical, not invented...  <vbg>


===========================================================
R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman



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