Re: Question about reading IFS text files with C read

He had something on using fopen, fread, fclose c apis that was quite
friendly for reading ifs text files. (I've used them, it's been a few
years though)

John


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I am trying to read a text file on the IFS with the C routines. I used
Scott Klement's "Working with the IFS in RPG IV" document as my starting
point.

The problem I am having is that it seems to be skipping the first two byes
of the file. Here is my code

dcl-s temp char(32700) inz;

xmlfd = open(path:O_RDONLY+O_TEXTDATA);
if xmlfd < *zero;
die('open(xmlread) read: '+%str(strerror(errno)));
endif;

//------------------------------------------------------------
// Read eApp XML file
//------------------------------------------------------------
%subst(temp:1:32700) = *blank;
count = read(xmlfd:%addr(temp):32700);

After the read is executed, in debug mode, I look at temp and it is
missing the first two bytes of the file.

What am I doing wrong?

Marvin
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