RE: Why no header files for RPG?

Or put it here
http://www7b.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsdd/studioServlet3
and post the request and lobby for votes.

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<snip>
Wouldn't it be nice to simply use a IBM-provided /include directive in 
your
program to use such things a qsort, bsearch, cpybla, open, close, connect,
accept, atoi, bind, etc...
</snip>

While I agree that it would be nice, I'm far from convinced that in and of
itself it  would help that much.

Most of the protos have already been written and can be found on a number 
of
web sites around the world.  But that is not what is needed.  The 
prototype
does nothing for you if you don't know how to call it.  For example a 
proto
will show a pointer being passed to supply the file name to an IFS 
function.
It would probably include Options(*String).  What would you pass to that?
Would you realize that you need to %Trim the field?  Would you realize 
that
__errno needs to be used to retrieve the error code if the API call 
failed?

The point I'm trying to make is that asking for the prototypes does little
for us, and besides it's too ;late - they are already all out there on the
web.

What we _do_ need is for IBM to come up with the funding for a new RPG
Redbook and to _stop_ issuing new APIs that are not documented for RPG 
use.

Write to IBM.  Don't waste your keystrokes writing to each other on this
list!  Write to IBM!

Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com


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