RE: QzshSystem API

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Scott, 

I forgot you had an IFS book on your site.  I think I need to go find
the IFS API docs on the infocenter: I read through the C APIs and the
QShell APIs but it didn't ocur to me to look through the IFS list.  I
love these experiences because you always end up realizing just how much
you don't know.

Joel
http://www.rpgnext.com


On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 18:04, Scott Klement wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Walden H. Leverich III wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, for mkdir you could just use the API... that'd be much easier...
> >
> > If the API worked to issue the mkdir command then this entire thread
> > would never have started.  I began by using QzshSystem() to try and
> > simply create a directory.
> >
> 
> I was referring to the mkdir() API, not the QzshSystem API.   mkdir() is
> a much easier API to use from an RPG program.  More info here:
> 
> http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs_ebook/mkdir.html
> 
> 
> > > In order to make it run without using STRQSH, you'd have to set up the
> > > descriptors 0,1,2 which are expected to always work for a Unix program.
> > > RPG doesn't do that for you by default (though, ILE C or Java probably do)
> >
> > Now I think we're getting somewhere.  I stupidly assumed that the API
> > would handle the necessary grunt work so that I could issue QSH
> > commands.
> 
> It would, if you were running it from Java :)   Note that the QSHELL APIs
> aren't listed under "Programming/APIs" in the information center, but
> rather they're listed under Programming/Java/QSHELL
> 
> >
> > Maybe I'm too basic for this work.  It doesn't matter to me if the
> > commands are Unix or not, in fact I think they should be native OS/400
> > commands.  Copying a directory and it's contents in a supported file
> > system from an application written in a native language should be easy,
> > period.  I'm using the Unix style commands and QSH because I have
> > basically no other option.
> 
> Can't you use the OS/400 CPY command via QCMDEXC?  Something like:
> 
>      CPY OBJ('/datacds') TODIR('/somewhere/else') SUBTREE(*ALL)
> 
> Personally, I think the Unix commands are more intuitive, but then I spend
> a lot of time in FreeBSD, since I use it as an alternative to Windows.
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