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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 > > > > > >> > +--- > | 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 > +--- > +--- > | 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 > +--- -- L. S. Russell Programmer/Analyst Datrek Professional Bags, Inc. 2413 Industrial Drive Springfield, TN. 37172 mailto:leslier@datrek.com http://www.datrek.com -- +--- | 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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