Re: Parms >32 long passed to CL Pgm

[Rick Baird <rbbaird@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

I don't know of an easy workaround, nor anywhere in the manuals that it
talks about it, but I can tell you what I've observed, and what I've
done to fix it:

I believe that what is happening is this - say I pass 3 parameters 10a,
40a and 10a.

'123456    '
'abcdefghijk                             '
'eieio     '

What you get (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) is this:

'123456    '
'abcdefghijk                     eieio'
'eieio     '

What I've done to fix this is to append a string terminator character
such as a carrot (^) or some such rarely used character.  The called
program looks for the carrot and pulls out just what is to the left of
it.

Not a very elegant solution, but I can count on one hand the number of
times I've run into this problem.

hth,

Rick

Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:
> 
> I know that if I define char parms to CL at 32chs or less they get passed
> OK and that if they are larger they can get screwed up, but can someone
> please remind me of the options I have to get round this.  It works if I
> make sure the full number of characters are passed but surely there are
> other options?  Also if someone can point me at the part of the CL manual
> that deals with this it would be helpful, I've only found one reference so
> far and it was less than definitive.
> 
> Jon.Paris@halinfo.it
> 
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