Re: More Stream File and DBCS issues... -- RPG400-L


I found more information on this doing a debug.  It may or
may not relate to my socket CCSID issue I am having.

On the call to the write() API, I'm writing out 128 bytes.
 The return code after the call is saying it wrote 3490
bytes.  There are probably 10 DBCS character in this data..
the rest is SBCS.  But every write after this, even
containing SBCS is corrupted.  And the RC for SBCS data
write() calls shows the same amount of bytes written as I
told it to write.

It's almost like it's totally messing up my pointer
position as I am using %addr() for the data parm on the
write() API.

Any ideas, I'm open ... off to scour the docs now.. 

Brad

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:32:16 -0500
 "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ok, this one really is weird.

I am converting files to different formats.  The data
contains DBCS data and SBCS data.

We got past the point of making a plain text or .doc file
working (.doc being basically a plain text with CRLF for
the lines).

Now we're doing PDF.  Which technically should make zero
difference.

We read the data in (a line of text), then write it out
to
a stream file using the write() API.

When it hits the line with the DBCS data in it, it just
freaks out and starts writing garbage to the file.

The ONLY difference in the text we're writing out is it
is
enclosed in ( and ) ends with a single quote.

I checked the data right before the Write(), checked the
length it was passing in, and everything is fine!  It
writes 12 lines before this one just fine, but once it
hits
the DBCS data, boom.

Makes no sense to me.  It is PDF data, but it's really
"just plain text".  And all data after it, even straigh
SBCS data is also garbage.

The only thing I could find was the hex value for the
line
that it starting bombing out on, instead of writing the
real data, it was x'FEFE'

The only thing I can think of here is a bug in the OS
with
the write() API.

Anyone else seen anything like this, or have any ideas?

So:

eval Data = 'This is DBCS Data'

if I write just Data, it is fine, even the DBCS data.

If I do:

eval Data = '(' + %trimr(Data) + ') '''

It starts writing just garbage.. and not even the same
length of string garbage.  :)

Argh  [pulling hair out]

Thanks in advance!
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