RE: Extraordinarily Long record length

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Barton wrote:

>>This sounds like a good candidate 
>>for the IFS.  FTP the file into the IFS
>
>This was my initial thought. When I 
>tried it tho' I failed miserably.

ftp xxx
user
pw
namefmt 1
put abcdef.txt \QOpenSys\abcdef.txt

As for reading IFS files with RPG, check out the oft-referenced Redbook "Who
knew you could do that..." available at http://www.as400.ibm.com (follow the
Library link)

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"We are what we repeatedly do.
 Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle


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