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  3. March 2002

Re: ILE questions: activation groups, rpg-cgi, classic web server.

> From: "Richard B Baird"
> if I do an explicit 'open' and 'close' on a file, it WILL close
> the file, even if the AG is still active won't it?

That's true.

> for instance,
> I do a lot of library list manipulation and open/close of
> usropn files.  I'm pretty sure I wont get bit by an file from
> the wrong library still being open if I explicitly closed it,
> will I?

OVRDBF works fine with named activation groups.  You can explicitly open and
close files.  Some cgi programmers use named activation and exit their
programs with a "return" statement, and leave files open, for performance
reasons.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com

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