RE: IFS STMF file read - Codepage problem?

How are you testing the first few bytes to see if it is encrypted?
Why not just open the file as binary (like you already are) then convert the
data to your job's CCSID then "test the first few bytes"?

O_TEXTDATA automatically converts the IFS file's codepage to the job's
codepage, but it can only do that effectively with plain ASCII text. It also
adds linefeed characters to the data, so the data will not be the same as it
is on the IFS when read by O_TEXTDATA. I use O_TEXTDATA only for text files.
Perhaps O_TEXTDATA is detecting something in the file that prohibits it from
being able to read the file as plain ascii text and is giving you an error
on the open or read. 



-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


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But I'm not sure that it needs to be decrypted at the point that I'm 
reading the file.  I'm reading the first few bytes to find out if the file 
is encrypted or not.

(still working on the error number - should have it soon)...

Thanks!

Jeff Stevens
Mize, Houser & Co. P.A.
913 451 1882
JStevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx





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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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- Mario Andretti

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Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 5:10 PM
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>> 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.