RE: Prototype for a command parameter.

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Thanks Barb,

Just yesterday I ran into a program here in which the developer added a
*LIKE DEFN instead of adding another D spec.  Sometimes I feel like a
mackerel trying to turn an aircraft carrier.

Rob Berendt

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                    12/12/2001 03:15
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>From: "Bob Cozzi \(RPGIV\)" <cozzi@rpgiv.com>
>Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:35:12 -0600
> ...
>To solve this, I've created a /COPY that includes all these data type,
>and I've named them INT1, INT2, INT4, and INT8. And I've been using
>LIKE(INT4) in my code.  (Please tell me the LIKE'd fields are INT4 and
>not packed!)

Bob, the LIKE'd fields are INT4 and not packed.  :)

As long as you use LIKE (and not *LIKE DEFINE), your LIKE'd fields
have the format of the original.  With *LIKE DEFINE, it depends.  (See
your local RPG manual for all the gruesome details of how *LIKE DEFINE
operates.)

Barbara Morris

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