Re: POP server direct access

Hello Paul,

If you change the CCSID tag to the correct ascii CCSID prior to opening the 
file (using CHGATR on V5R1 or the Qp0lSetAttr API) - how does the implicit 
conversion then work?

Best regards,
Carsten Flensburg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicolay, Paul" <paul_nicolay@merck.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:33 PM
Subject: POP server direct access


> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a program that should process incoming mails.  While a sockets
> connection to the POP server is maybe the recommended method, I'm currently
> reading directly from \QTCPTMM\MAIL\<mailbox>
>
> When reading the file (with the C open/read() functions) from such a mailbox
> however, I get a few translation issues.  First of all, unlike for example
> my HTML files the content doesn't get translated to EBCDIC (because the SMTP
> server seems to tag those mail files with CCSID 37).  Instead the file
> remains ASCII... which I tried to solve by doing the translation myself
> (based on QEBCDIC table).
>
> While this works for almost all characters, it doesn't for 'I', 'O' and 'Z'
> ???  I can understand that special characters would be an issue, but not
> something in the range from A to Z ?
>
> Why is the C function acting this strange... and why is viewing the file via
> NetServer or EDTF going perfect ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul
>
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