RE: ICF dynamic read problem was: bug

["Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I looked at the varlen field, and it seem to only be for writing to the ICF,
I'm actually tring to read data that variable length...

. tim .

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bipes [SMTP:chris.bipes@cross-check.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:17 PM
> To:   'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: ICF dynamic read problem was: bug
>
> Try this in your DDS for variable length
> R SEND                       VARLEN(&VLEN)
>                              INVITE
>   VSEND       1024A
>   VLEN           5S  P
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hatzenbeler, Tim [mailto:thatzenbeler@clinitech.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:00 PM
> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: ICF dynamic read problem was: bug
>
> The bank told me, that if I send all my 80 character detail lines to them,
> after they get the trailor record, they will send me back an 80 character
> confirmation line back...
>
> But thats not actually true... When I look at the ICF trace the back in
> sending me back 1077 bytes....  All the the confimation lines from all my
> testing...  So I'm trying to figure out how to read this variable number
> of
> lines...
>
> If my record length in my dds is set to 80, it says my buffer isn't big
> enough...  So if I set the buffer to 5000 bytes, the read will time out,
> because it didn't get the othe 4000 bytes...
>
> So I'm stuck...  I would like to read 80 characters, and then check, to
> see
> if there is another 80 to recieve, and then read those... and when there
> are
> no more bytes left to read... Quit...
>
> How would I do that?
>
> Thanks, tim
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