Re: Extraordinarily Long record length -- RPG400-L

Hi Martin,

Were you in binary mode? This is the same principle as FTPing a save file
from your PC to the AS/400. Once you've got it into the 80-byte physical
file, you can use COPY (aka CPY) to translate it from ASCII to EBCDIC should
you need to do so.

HTH,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: <Martin.Cubitt@keymed.co.uk>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: Extraordinarily Long record length


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> Thank you but when we tried that we found it lost data!
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> "Peter Dow" <pcdow@yahoo.com>@midrange.com on 27/09/2000 17:36:22
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> Please respond to RPG400-L@midrange.com
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> To:     <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
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> Subject:  Re: Extraordinarily Long record length
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> Have you tried just creating an 80-byte physical file
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>     CRTPF lib/file RCDLEN(80)
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> then FTPing directly into it?
>
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> 909 425-0194 voice
> 909 425-0196 fax
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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
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> >
> > 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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