Re: API documentation

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Let me say this.  I eat up API's all the time.  Use them alot.  I feel that
some of them are buggy.  For example the QWDRSBSD api.  I use that to check
if a subsystem has any jobs running under it, (is my domino server down
yet?).  If you call it on a nonexistent subsystem you would think that it
should update the error code data structure.  After all, what is the error
code data structure for?  However it will abort with an error message.  I
chose to set up my program to monmsg for this stupid error message and then
move that to the error code message parameter.

I also agree that the documentation on the C api's are the worst.  I feel
the documentation on the primary api's are excellent.  It is imperative
that you understand how a list API works for many of the API's.  I've
processed them in CL, RPG and RPGIV.  There are some examples in the rpg
redbook.

Rob Berendt

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Gary,

"If you build it, he will come" - Field of Dreams

If you write it, I will buy.

Valene M Williamson
Glazers
Dallas, TX

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