RE: Getting the serial number

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

M
Hello Colin,

That's a really good way to shoot yourself in the foot!

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1459.74)
> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 09:05:52 +0000
> From: "Colin Williams" <Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk>
> To: "'RPG400-L@midrange.com'" <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> Reply-To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Getting the serial number

> 
> The way I usually do this is to create a 1 char field for any field that
> is defined as char(*), and set up a field to point to the data once the
> API has been called.
> 
> eg. 
> 
> DSRcv 1A
> 
> DSData  32767A                Based(Ptr1)
> 
> CALL QWCRSVAL using DSRcv as the parameter for receiver variable
> 
> after the call
> 
> EVAL Ptr1=%addr(DSRcv), and DSData will contain the data returned from
> the API.

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