Re: Maximum size for Varying length field

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The QCMDEXC API expect a character string, but you're passing a varying
character string.  This is similar to passing it a zoned decimal field
when it wants a packed field, etc.   Unless you use a prototype as define
it as CONST (Which I would highly recommend!!) you'll have to pass the
exact same type of variable as the API is expecting.

The reason you're getting a length error is that the first 2 bytes of a
varying field are the length.  But, the API is expecting all of the
bytes in the variable to be data...  So, the length is getting screwed up.

On Fri, 30 May 2003 fkany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Is there a maximum size for a program field when using the Varying keyword?
> I get an error message when the program below trys to execute the call to
> QCMDEXC in the SNDEMAIL subroutine.  The error message says something about
> how the varying length field might be too long.
>