Re: VARLEN question -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: VARLEN question
From: "PAPWORTH Paul" <Paul.PAPWORTH@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:10:31 +0100
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Thanks to all who replied.

Dennis

I will modify the data length to 9000.

I used wrkdbf to display the record

Charles

Why are you using a DS overlay to handle variable length external

fields instead of using RPGIV's native support of them?

Can I simply do a varfield = fixed_length_field ; ?

Why do I in examples on the net the overlay I used ?

Paul

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Follow-Ups:

Re: VARLEN question , Charles Wilt
RE: VARLEN question , Dennis Lovelady

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