Re: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thats what I am trying to do with my Open Source/400 Project
http://www.springfieldtn.net/users/leslier/

I am currently offering a menu system but as I get more time I will be
offering my interpretation of API wrappers, and loads of utilities!


Alan Campin wrote:
> 
> The thing that comes up for me in this discussion is why are we reinventing
> the same code again and again?
> 
> A week ago, I put out a message on an IFS service program that I would be
> glad to send to anyone who wants it, compiled and ready to use. The library
> has been in use for over a year and others have written the same thing.
> 
> We shouldn't be having to write the same stuff again and again. That is the
> whole concept of ILE. Build it once and reuse.
> 
> As I have said before, we need a GNU library for AS/400 ILE programs.
> 
> Almost wonder if this should come from or lead by IBM.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 11:21 AM
> To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
> 
> Helps if you are familiar with C file I/O.
> 
> I think it's the only way to get at files in the IFS through RPG without
> copying them to a database file first.  I like this kind of thing because it
> shows how ILE give us useful tools we never had before and enables us to use
> them in a language we do know.
> 
> The scary thing for me is that I still haven't learned to use the old tools
> very well.
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> A mind is a terrible thing to use.
> 
> Joel Fritz
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.goddard.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:39 AM
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
> >
> >
> > I know, I know, we gotta keep up, we can't be old-fashioned,
> > we gotta get
> > with the program...  but gee whizzzzz...
> >
> > where's there any RPG at all in this mystifying piece of
> > RPGized-C++ code?
> >  I'd bet that there are not 5 out of 100 qualified RPG
> > programmers that
> > can even begin to understand what is happening here.
> >
> > If someone asked me to do the same function in real RPG code
> > I would be
> > absolutely stuck.
> >
> > _______________________
> > Booth Martin
> > boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> > http://www.spy.net/~booth
> > _______________________
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > MSievers@promega.com
> > Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
> > 01/13/2000 11:11 AM
> > Please respond to RPG400-L
> >
> >
> >         To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
> >         cc:
> >         Subject:        Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
> >
> >
> > D errnoP          S               *
> > D errno           S             10I 0 BASED(errnoP)
> >
> > C                   Eval      FileHandle=open(%addr(FilePath):oflag)
> > C                   EVAL      errnoP = errnoF
> >
> >
> >>
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