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  3. October 2002

RE: RPG, IFS, and FTP

>>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've done it both ways, and I'm convinced that the
>double open idiom is better.  It's initially a bit
>more of a hassle, but once you've got it you
>can write to any supported codepage.

I can't add much to the thread except to say that I would create a service
program function called "createFile" and have it do the first open.  Then
I'd have another to do "openFile".  I would not have code like this in the
mainline.
  --buck

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