Re: Embedding an IFS file inside another IFS file

Your method should work... I'm doing similar things in some of my
projects, and I haven't had any problems.

You say "it appears as garbage"... that sure SOUNDS like a codepage issue.
Make sure that BOTH files have the correct codepage assigned to them
when they're created.   Make sure that they're BOTH opened with
O_TEXTDATA.

My thinking is that what you're doing is opening the second file without
O_TEXTDATA, thinking that it's already in ASCII.    The problem is,
O_TEXTDATA will force the data to be converted from EBCDIC to ASCII, and
if it's already ASCII, that'll give you garbage.

So, you either want to use O_TEXTDATA for BOTH files, or for neither...
If you are using O_TEXTDATA, you should be able to display the contents of
the variables from your READ/WRITE statements using STRDBG and see that
the data being written isn't garbage.

Good Luck!

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Leland, David wrote:

> I am attempting to create an IFS text file which has the contents of another
> IFS text file embedded somewhere in the middle of it.  I'm attempting to do
> this in an RPG program using the read() and write() API's.  Basically, I'm:
> 1) creating the first file (using an open() with O_CREAT)
> 2) writing some text to it
> 3) opening the second file
> 4) reading it
> 5) writing the contents of the second to the first
> 6) closing the second file
> 7) writing some more text to the first file
> 8) closing the first file
>
> Unfortunately, this is not working the way I'd hoped.  The contents of the
> second IFS file appear as garbage in my first file even though both are
> ASCII files.  In my RPG program, I open the first file as follows:
> Eval      FileDesc = open(%ADDR(FullName)
>             : O_CREAT + O_WRONLY + O_TRUNC +
>               O_CODEPAGE
>             : S_IRWXU + S_IROTH
>             : AsciiCodePage)
>
> Then I close it:
> Eval      ReturnInt = close(FileDesc)
>
> Then I reopen it.
> Eval      FileDesc = open(%ADDR(FullName)
>             : O_TEXTDATA + O_RDWR)
>
> Then I write some text to it.  This is the technique I always use and it's
> worked fine for other things but I can't figure out how to get the contents
> of the first to not be garbage.  I don't think it has anything to do with
> codepages but am not sure.
>