RE: Copying to a Stream File

Rather than write your data to a database file with fixed-length records,
and then try to get that file to somehow convert to the format that you
want, I recommend just writing it in the correct format in the first
place.

In other words, skip the database file and write directly to a stream
file.

I've got a tutorial on-line which explains how to work with the IFS from
an RPG program.  You can read it here:
  http://www.scottklement.com/rpg/ifs.html


On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Kara Ketcham wrote:
>
> I am trying to copy a physical file to a stream file that will be
> imported into another system.  This other system cannot accept carriage
> returns or line feeds so I have created a physical file with one field
> that is defined as 80 characters long.  The data is formatted so that it
> is written out to this file as one long string with a '~' separating
> each segment.  The problem is that when the last record is written out,
> it does not fill the entire 80 characters of the field.  I can not have
> anything after the last '~' - no carriage return, no line feed, no eof
> terminator, and not even blanks.  Does anyone have a suggestion?
>