Re: RPG & the IFS & CSV

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

True, "UNIX-Type APIs" isn't a very good name for the book.   Really, the
APIs should be grouped by function, not by what operating system they
were copied from. :)

I don't think of them as the "IFS APIs for C".  They're system APIs, not
part of the C runtime -- you don't have to bind to QC2LE to access them.
(Though, you need QC2LE to check errno when anything goes wrong.)

fopen() and friends are the C functions for accessing the IFS.  Those do
require QC2LE.

But your point is well taken... none of this is particularly intuitive.
However, I don't work for IBM, so all I can really do is agree :)

On Tue, 14 May 2002, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:

> <TONGUE ALIGN=CHEEK>
> oh, yeah, of course! unix2. Yeah, thats where I can find the d#(* IFS APIs!
> <TONGUE ALIGN=CENTER>
>
> boy, I'll bet there's an adventurous story to go with "how I found the IFS
> APIs for C".
>