RE: Re[4]: New Opcodes - %SETCELL -- RPG400-L

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> >>Regarding IFS support - Has no-one tried to write a SPECIAL
> >>file program for IFS reads and writes?  It seems like an
> >>ideal use for SPECIAL files.
>
>There's probably fewer people that know how to write 
>SPECIAL files than know how to find/read the 
>documentation and understand how to use API's

It seems more modern to bind to an IFS service program, explicitly calling
the OPEN, READ, etc. functions than it does to code to the SPECIAL parameter
list which has implicit open/close, etc.  Maybe it's just me...

Buck Calabro
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