Re: AW: Avoid Level checks was ( Generic RPG File Handler for File I/O using OA) -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: AW: Avoid Level checks was ( Generic RPG File Handler for File I/O using OA)
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 08:24:13 -0700
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Another useful technique for avoiding level checks is to simply open your file(s) as *program-described*

While this forces you to parse the data yourself (and eliminates scatter-gather I/O), it *does* avoid level checks completely.

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JHHL

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Re: AW: Avoid Level checks was ( Generic RPG File Handler for File I/O using OA) , Reeve
RE: AW: Avoid Level checks was ( Generic RPG File Handler for File I/O using OA) , Rob Berendt

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