Re: devtype(*AFPDS) and varying length barcodes

The easy way to compile printer files without loosing the
parameters is RLU (opt 19 in SEU). You don't need to use
RLU to design your PRTF (if you don't like RLU) but only to
create them, since RLU writes in the bottom of the source
the command to create the PRTF, once created the first
time, you can forget about the parameters.
About the second question somebody already stated about
escaping the end of the barcode data but about the size you
cannot do it with dds.
HTH
Marco
--- Jimmy Ballard <JBallard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have two questions:
> 
> 1)      We have a few printer files that must be compiled
> with
> DEVTYPE(*AFPDS) - since they print bar codes. I am hoping
> that one of you
> smarter folks knows of an  "H Spec" of sorts for a
> printer file - where I
> can specify this option somewhere in the source. (So that
> I do not have to
> rely upon a comment in the TEXT or in the source to
> remind me to compile
> these specific printer files with this specific option.)
> Does anyone know of
> a way to specify this particular option in the source so
> that it always
> compiles with this option?
> 
> 2)      Speaking of barcodes - I would like to print a
> varying length field
> out as a barcode. If the field is only 5 chars long - I
> don't want a barcode
> that has the 5 characters and then 45 blanks - I would
> like the barcode to
> only be 5 chars long. In an attempt to define the field
> as varying in the
> printer file I created a reference file that has this
> field defined as
> VARLEN - and specified REFFILE in the printer file.
> (however, the compile
> listing for the printer file showed the length as the max
> length - 40) Then,
> when I compile the RPG program it fails because it
> doesn't like that the
> printer file sees the field as 40 long when the pgm sees
> it as varying
> length (42 long). I have since created a Frankenstein DS
> in the RPG to
> accomplish my feat - but there has to be a cleaner &
> easier way...Does
> anyone know of a way to use a varying length field to
> print a varying length
> barcode?
> 
> Thanks tons...
> 
> -Jimmy
> 



                
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