RE: IFS STMF file read - Codepage problem?

You can open non-"plain" ASCII with O_TEXTDATA? Hmmm?
I don't think he should be reading the file as O_TEXTDATA, but rather, read
it as binary, decrypt it, then convert the decrypted text which should at
that point be in ASCII or CCSID 437 (8-bit ASCII US PC) to EBCDIC.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:10 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: IFS STMF file read - Codepage problem?


>> EVAL data:x
>     00000     2D2D2D2D 2D424547 494E2050 4750204D   - .....âáåñ+.&å&.(
>     00010     45535341 47452D2D 2D2D2D40 40404040   - áëë åá.....
>     00020     40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040   -
>     00030     4040.... ........ ........ ........   -   ..............
> On the code page 437  - the file attributes say that it's a codepage of
> 437.

Yep, that looks like valid ASCII. You need to get O_TEXTDATA working, 
somehow. Please let us know what the value of "errno" is when you find 
out.