Re: RPG, IFS, and FTP -- RPG400-L

Makes complete sense.

I did find an alternative, though it seems.  You could open
it once and convert the data from EBCDIC to ASCII before
writing it and it seems to have the same effect.

I don't know what hit me yesterday.  Allergies and a cold
plus medicine... I couldn't think straight!  :)

Thanks, Scott.  Got things worked out.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:23:57 -0600 (CST)
 Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> wrote:
>
> What you needed to do was specify different flags on the
> two calls
> to open() (or openstmf() in your case)
>
>
> first call:       O_CREAT + O_TRUNC + O_RDWR + O_CODEPAGE
> The idea is to create the file (or clear it) and assign
> it a codepage.
> For this call, you also need to specify the codepage and
> the mode.
>
> second call:      O_RDWR + O_TEXTDATA
> The idea here is to open an already existing file (you
> created it
> in the first call) in text data mode.
>
> Of course, if you're only writing to the file, not also
> reading,
> you'd want to use O_WRONLY instead of O_RDWR.
>
> Is this making sense?
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Brad Stone wrote:
>
> > Oh, I see.  I shouldn't have specifyed O_TEXTDATA on
> the
> > first create, and only specified it on the second
> create.
> > Correct?  (see code in response to Eric..)
> >
> > Man, I need a nap.  :)
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 17:04:17 -0600 (CST)
> >  Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Are you creating the file with O_CREAT and at the
> same
> > > time assigning
> > > O_TEXTDATA and O_CODEPAGE?  If so, that's the
> problem.
> > >
> > > When you open a file with O_TEXTDATA it translates
> > > whatever the codepage
> > > on the file is...  however, if the file doesn't
> exist, no
> > > code page has
> > > been assigned, so no translation is done.  When you
> use
> > > O_CODEPAGE, you
> > > are assigning a code page...  OS/400 thinks that the
> data
> > > you're writing
> > > to that file will already be in that code page, and
> > > that's why you're
> > > assigning that.
> > >
> > > For example, if you were writing an HTTP client
> (since I
> > > know yu've done
> > > this) and you've asked the server for a codepage,
> you'd
> > > tell the AS/400
> > > that codepage.  You wouldn't want the data
> translated,
> > > because you'd be
> > > receiving it on the socket already in that page.
> > > And, that's what OS/400 thinks is happening...
> > >
> > > The solution is pretty simple.   First create the
> file
> > > with
> > > O_CREAT & O_CODEPAGE, then close() it and open it
> again.
> > > This time with
> > > O_TEXTDATA.   Since the file already exists, and
> already
> > > has a code page,
> > > the system will automatically translate for you.
> > >
> > > Good Luck!
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Brad Stone wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am creating an IFS file with an RPG program.  I
> am
> > > > specifying the file as text data, code page 819.
> > > >
> > > > If I use WRKLNK to view the file, it looks great.
> If I
> > > try
> > > > and use FTP to download the file, it's all garbage
> on
> > > my PC.
> > > >
> > > > can anyone explain why?  :)
> > > >
> > > > I'm having a little brain fry today...
> > > >
> > > > Brad
> > >
>
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Bradley V. Stone
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