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  3. July 2005

RE: ExtProc() keyword confusion

You could use a short story as a procedure name, IIRC a procedure name can
be over 4000 characters.



-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Carolla [mailto:carolla@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:23 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: ExtProc() keyword confusion


On 7/8/05, Bob Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> That's what the prototype name is for--to allow you to use whatever name 
> you
> want inside the RPG IV program regardless of the true name of the 
> procedure
> you're calling.
> 
> D MyBigAssLongProcName...
> D PR ExtProc('GetTBatchPats')


I get it. I haven't tried any long names as of yet -- it turns out that 
GetTBatchPats doesn't even need the '...'

Thanks. 

ps. Perhaps I should have named it:

D MyBigFatGreekProcedureName...

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