Re: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV

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

Do you have the beginnings of such a thing? I think it is a good idea
and if anyone can help get it started we will post it on the site.

Colin Williams wrote:
> 
> How about a C to RPG data types conversion table on your page!
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: L. S. Russell [mailto:leslier@datrek.com]
> >Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 7:28 PM
> >To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> >Subject: Re: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV
> >
> >
> >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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