Re: STDIN, STDOUT and pipes

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Larry!

Too cool! I've read Bruce's book - almost cover to cover. It's fantastic. (I'll take another Dr. Pepper, Bruce!) Of course, the plot is a little thin and the characterization lacks something - except in the discussion on character sets and CCSIDs.

Ducking!

Vern

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From: Larry Ducie <larry_ducie@xxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Scott, Richard, Simon, Bruce, Vern, Terrence, 
>
> You have convinced me enough to go back to the docs and re-evaluate my 
> understanding of user spaces. 
>
> For too long my perception has been clouded by the implementation of them in the 
> last place I worked that I confess I didn't think I needed to go back to basics 
> and read the full documentation on them. In this case RTFM is quite applicable 
> and appropriate. It would appear that a user space in QTEMP with the auto-extend 
> attribute set and direct pointer manipulation may well be the way to go for me. 
> It would appear to combine the benefits of a temporary stream file 
> (auto-extensibility) with the speed and ease of a pointer. If only it supported 
> text conversion on the write. But hey, that's why we have iconv() I guess. :-) 
>
> Hmmm... 
>
> Bruce, I'll take a look at your book - promise! 
>
> Have a great weekend guys! 
>
> Larry Ducie