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On 21/01/2006, at 11:15 AM, Dave Johnson wrote:
Does anyone have or can point me to, an example of reading an IFS file in RPG, that is not a text file? That is, lets say that I have a zip file stored in my ifs and i want to read it and write it out to another system via a socket, for example. I can find all kinds of examples of how to read text files (O_Text), but no one seems to want to explain, with an example that actually works that is, how to read a non-text file. I even checked Mr. Klement's website/tutorial and his example, to the best of my knowledge, is for simple text files only.
A cursory glance at the documentation for open() would show:"If O_TEXTDATA is not specified, the data is processed as binary. The data is read from the file and written to the file without any conversion. The application is responsible for handling the data."
Other than whether this flag is specified or not there is very little difference between text processing and binary processing.
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