Re: Need to scan files

PDM search does not care what type of file it is. I can see someone making
a distinction between flat, non-externally described files vs. externally
described. The concern might be about fields vs. flat records. But again,
PDM does not limit this.

There is no reason, LOBs and VARCHARS notwithstanding, that grep could not
be written to search against the dataspace directly. You don't expect PDM
to expand packed fields or binary fields. But the beginnings of grep came
from text-based assumptions, eh?

At 01:22 PM 4/6/02 -0800, you wrote:
>There is also the fact that an RPG program can open an externally-described
>file as if it were a program-described file.
>
>Peter Dow
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@attbi.com>
>Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 5:52 AM
>Subject: Re: Need to scan files
>
>
> > We can get around the external file limitation by creating a PF with
> > RCDLEN, then CPYF *NOCHK back and forth. But I consider this a bug, and am
> > going to report it. I mean, source PFs have fields, just like any
> > externally described file, after all.
>
>
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