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

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😨 My $0.02: that's a very, very bad idea. Even worse than that,
actually. Just because you can doesn't mean you should!

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On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 8:24 AM James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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