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One solution, which I implemented in my CGILIB (a CGIDEV2 service program) is to provide a second cgiGetVarEx() procedure. This one does not have a return value (other than '1'=Valid, '0'=Bad variable name). Instead, it has four parms (instead of the two of cgiGetVar and zhbGetVar()). It is called like this: If cgiGetVarEx('MYCGIVAR' : %addr(rtnvar) : %size(rtnvar)) Parm1 is the Form field name. Parm2 is the address of the return variable or dynamically allocated buffer to receive the return data. Parm3 is the length of the return variable/buffer. Parm4 is the occurrence of that variable (which is Parm2 in cgiGetVar and zhbGetVar). Then you can pass up to a 16 meg buffer or pointer to the buffer and it works fine. If you're locked into CGIDEV2, which you probably are, you might consider wrapping the zhbGetVar() proc in your own wrapper and doing something similar to what I do in cgiGetVarEx(). -Bob Cozzi -----Original Message----- From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mel Rothman Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 8:43 PM To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: FW: Have you seen this? Steve, your supposition is correct: if ZhbGetVar returned only a 100 byte varying value, there would be no problem handling thousands of ZhbGetVar calls in a program. Of course, I can't change ZhbGetVar because: - a lot of user written code would break; - many users have requested the ability to return MORE than 32767 bytes. Reducing the returned size would only increase the number of requests and complaints. Mel Rothman, CGIDEV2 Author Mel Rothman, Inc. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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