Re: Overflow and INOF with Externam Printer file

I must be going crazy... here's an example that works:
FFD001P1 O E PRINTER USROPN

Then in the compile listing, I search for *INOF and low and behold it
magically appears:

Global Field References:
Field Attributes References (D=Defined M=Modified)
*INOF N(1) 344 372

The two references for it are IF statements (ie, IF *INOF print headings...)

I asked a guy I used to work with years ago and he said "I don't know... it
just works in all our programs too!"
I know there's something. But years of copying code is making it slip by
my mind how to get that darned thing to appear. And now it's not that I
have to do it, it's that it's driving me crazy as to why it doesn't work.

I don't see anything in the DDS for the printer file either that references
INOF.

Brad


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/17/2014 12:10 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:

(moved from Midrange-L)

I'm having a major brain malfunction this morning. :)

I haven't created a Printer File from scratch for years but now I have

to.

I created it, added an F spec to my RPG program, declared it as:

FMYPRTFILE O E PRINTER

I'm seeing that *INOF isn't being declared at compile time like I assumed
it would. I know I'm missing something from somewhere to make that

happen.

:)

OFLIND(*INOF) doesn't work either.

"The parameter for keyword OFLIND is not valid; keyword is ignored. "

When using OFLIND you have to specify *IN01-*IN99 and manually reset it

to

off as well.

All other programs I've done with external printer files don't have

OFLIND

either. INOF magically appears during compile.

I don't recall that happening. All of my external printer files have
OFLIND(*IN99) and I use 99 where I would use OF. Yes, I set 99 off when
I WRITE HPRTHDR.
--buck

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