Re: Extraordinarily Long record length

Have you tried just creating an 80-byte physical file

    CRTPF lib/file RCDLEN(80)

then FTPing directly into it?

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Martin.Cubitt@keymed.co.uk>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:51 AM
Subject: Extraordinarily Long record length


>
> One of our business partners are sending us data which arrives as one long
> stream of data.  We need to download this using FTP to our AS/400 and then
> process it.  However, the stream they send is of variable length and often
> larger than the AS/400's maximum 32766 record length.
>
> Does anyone know how to read a variable length record and split it into 80
> column records?
>
> For now we upload to a PC, split into 80 column records using a PC program
> and then FTP to our AS/400.
>
> The program I wrote on the PC reads the input file byte by byte and simply
> outputs to a new file, adding control codes 13 and 10 when it reaches 80
> characters.  I need to be able to do similar in RPG.. or any other means!
>
> The BASIC code is:
>
>  open f$ for binary as #1
>  open n$ for binary as #2
>
>  fread:
>  get$ #1, 80, C$
>  put$ #2, C$
>  put$ #2, chr$(13)
>  put$ #2, chr$(10)
>
>  if not (eof(1)) then goto fread
>  close #1
>  close #2
>
> HELP!!! Please!!
>
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