Re: Overflow and INOF with Externam Printer file

Is there some reason you are required to use OF? Personally, I use an
indicator named "overflow" and it seems to work just fine. I do not use
the RPG cycle and have no need of the built-in indicators much.

if overflow;
write headings; // or whatever
endif;

write detail;



Stu



On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The few I've looked at recently all have the program counting lines or
checking the INFDS for current line vs overflow.

From the "System i Programming DDS for printer files".....

"For externally defined files, RPG cannot control page overflow"

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:52:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Overflow and INOF with Externam Printer file
From: bvstone@xxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Booth,

Ya, we've already been over that.

FFD001P1 O E PRINTER OFLIND(*INOF) USROPN

Doesn't work. It won't let you use *INOF on the F spec of an externally
described printer file.

All I know is I have one program that has:

FFD001P1 O E PRINTER USROPN

And INOF shows up in the compile listing and it works fine as it should.

I create a program with just that F spec, turn on LR as the only c spec

and

INOF doesn't show up in the compile listing.

I know it's something simple, and so obvious and I'm going to wake up in
the middle of the night screaming AHA! at one point. lol..

Brad


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

*INOF is a named indicator, just like *INLR or *IN99 and can be set on
and off in an RPG program, and used just like any other indicator by

the

program. Even if there is no printer file.

If you want *INOF set on by overflow in an external printer file then

you

want an F-spec like this:

FFD001P1 O E PRINTER OFLIND(*INOF) USROPN

I have not tested that, so be careful. I do, from time to time, make
mistakes.




On 7/17/2014 2:27 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:

Thanks Jeff.

Yes, that makes sense. But I have a few programs than have externally
described Printer files and Use *INOF. I just can't figure out how.

:)

Brad

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