Re: Source file names (was Using prototypes...)

I often create my own source files with appropriate names, for example for a particular project or a particular piece of development.

Nowadays, becasue of the flexibility on the AS400 / ISeries / I5, it is not necessary to follow strictly the supplied compiler commands, with the implied defualts for source file names.

I have a set of compiler commands available at rpglanguage.com/compile (been there for a while) which can be edited and customized to suit in-house working arrangements. These are more flexible than simply using the supplied compiler commands or PDM options 14 / 15.

Regards,
John Mckay

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Subject: RE: Source file names (was Using prototypes...)

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Simon Coulter


On 08/05/2010, at 12:57 AM, hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I know this is not directly the subject, but I have always wondered
> why people has different sourcefiles for different source types.

Me too.

This is obvious. CVTRPGSRC, CRTPF, CRTRPGMOD, CRTCLMOD, etc., all want us to use QXXXSRC. When I started out, my personal library contained one source file called TOOLS in which I put everything. But default command settings soon corrected me. In our company NOBODY touches the default settings!
Why does IBM apparently WANT us to use these file names?

The only separation I do is for include files which are in
separate files (one per language thus H for C, RPGLEINC, for
RPGLE, CBLINC for
COBOL) and this is primarily because they are cross-group
items.

I didn't quite get that. You don't separate the main source files by language type, but you do separate shared source by language type?
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