Re: System API QlnDumpCobol

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Howard,

You wrote:
>Quick question when the parameter group specifies a parm with the attribute
>of char(*) what exactly is the API looking for? Is it a variable length
>field? If anyone has a snipit (don't matter what API as long as it has a
>char(*) parm) I can stop banging my head on the table. :-)

If the API is a normal system API in the SPIR manual the CHAR(*) means an 
arbitrary charcter field or data structure.

If the API is a Unix-like API then char * means a pointer to a character 
string (usually null-terminated).

Notice the difference in encoding:  CHAR(*) versus char *

In this case the CHAR(*) is the error code parameter so it means a character 
data structure of any length greater than or equal to 8 bytes that follows 
the layout described for the Qus_Ec structure.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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