RE: Create a stream file in RPG? -- RPG400-L

Found it!  Thanks!

- Dan Bale

-----Original Message-----
From: Leisk, Andrew [mailto:aleisk@frpaper.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 4:01 PM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Create a stream file in RPG?
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There was a recent red book on this named something like "I didnt know you
could do that with RPG" 
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From:   Bale, Dan[SMTP:DBale@TFSA.Textron.com] 
Reply To:       RPG400-L@midrange.com 
Sent:   Wednesday, March 15, 2000 2:14 PM 
To:     'RPG400-L@midrange.com' 
Subject:        RE: Create a stream file in RPG? 
>From the wonderful AS/400 Information Center that you can't scan or search: 
I.F.S. Introduction 
APIs 
The APIs that perform operations on integrated file system directories and 
stream files are in the form of C language functions. You have a choice of 
two sets of functions, either of which you can use in programs that are 
created using Integrated Language Environment (ILE) C/400: 
   * Integrated file system C functions that are included in OS/400. 
   * C functions provided by the ILE C/400 licensed program. 
So I took that to mean that I couldn't use them in RPG-IV.  
Yes? No?  Do you have any examples?  I think I need to use QHFWRTSF, as well

as the APIs to open & close the stream file.  Or should I first pursue 
writing to a flatfile, then using CPYTOSTMF? 
Oh, and if by chance I _can_ use the IFS stream file APIs, where the @#$% 
can I find the documentation for them? 
- Dan Bale 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Bipes [mailto:rpg@cross-check.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 1:46 PM 
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com' 
Subject: RE: Create a stream file in RPG? 


Check out the IFS APIs.  This is where you will find all your stream file 
handling. 
Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com 
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com 
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com 
6119 State Farm Drive    Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102 
Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884 
If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here. 
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000 


-----Original Message----- 
From: Bale, Dan [mailto:DBale@TFSA.Textron.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 10:33 AM 
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com' 
Subject: Create a stream file in RPG? 


I am trying to determine how to output to a stream file in RPG IV. 
Essentially, I am trying to create an .RTF document file on the 400, so that

I can open it in Wordpad, or even MS Word.  
I am trying to do a homegrown green-screen documentation utility so that I 
can include 5250 screen prints with all the highlighting & underscores in a 
Word document.  Since Word understands RTF, and RTF is relatively simple to 
build and can handle the bold and underlining attributes, I figured the 
programming would be pretty easy.  But it seems that I need to output to a 
stream file. 
I searched for "stream file" and did not find any reference in the ILE-RPG 
manuals.  Will I just have to output to a regular flatfile with, say, a 
record length of 500, output one record per print line and use CPYTOSTMF?  
Answer to the inevitable question:  Because I am a travelling contractor and

this is doable. 
The inevitable question:  Why not just buy a package to do this? 
TIA, 
- Dan Bale 
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