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>If you read what what he said, it was, "We look for new function that can't >otherwise be done easily in the language today.". Can not be done easily. I >really don't' see too much of a problem with that, why shouldn't' they work on >the things that are very hard for us to do now, putting the stuff we can do >rather easily on the back burner in the meanwhile? << Can not be done easily.>> Ah, The only rub will come as we discover who decides what "Done easily" means. There may be some disagreements when it comes to; Figuring out C #include files and finding/understanding/coding Unix/C API's and whether that constitutes "Done easily" I personally won't care, I currently read & write to the IFS using Unix API's already. And I know how to use VA/RPG to do DDE with active spreadsheets if I want to do a equiv to %GETCELL. My concern was with some of the less fortunate programmers who can hardly get their head above the current backlog. I know, that's their problem. Let them eat cake. I still think we need native I/O functions to the IFS within the language. My guess is that SPECIAL files are currently used as much as "Look ahead" fields are. But I have been wrong many times before. John Carr +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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