Re: Having problems accessing IFS from RPGIV

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

Absolutely!!! Any submissions will be tested and if they work they will
be rolled into the next major release. If they don't work then we will
figure out why and fix it. Collaboration is the best thing about open
source!

Colin Williams wrote:
> 
> Presumably this is open to contributions from others?
> 
> >-----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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