Re: Spl2stmf and HPT

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The output of HPT is usually some flavor of ASCII.  Maybe that's why it 
looks like "gibberish" to you?

Possibly you just need to mark the IFS file with a proper CCSID after 
it's done, and tools like DSPF or EDTF will view it properly?

Regarding your change...  are you certain that the data is 
null-terminated?  In my experience with the HPT API, it normally is not, 
it's just raw binary data.  You should not be using %STR here... unless 
I'm misunderstanding.


On 4/20/2014 6:00 PM, Jack Tucky wrote:
> I downloaded a program called Spl2Stmf that uses the spool file API's to
> read a spool file and write an IFS file.
>
> I'm trying to modify so I can just read the spool file in RPG to look for
> some keywords.
>
> I changed this line which wrote the STMF:
>
> EVAL      bytesw = write(fd : xbufspc_p : hptxbuflena)
> To this:
> String = %str(xbufspc_p : hptxbuflena);
>
> But I only see gibberish in the String.  I'm guessing that the write command
> in the original example did some conversion when it wrote to the IFS.
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?  Maybe I need to strip out the HPT
> completely as I'm just reading the spool file in the program?  The original
> download save file link is broken however.
>
> http://homepage1.nifty.com/uzaemon/#download
>
> Now that I think more this is overkill and I just need something to open and
> read the spool file.
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