RE: opendir()

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dennis Lovelady wrote:
> > > I think I found it:  Move Stream File (QHFMOVSF) API
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/
> > > apis/apifinder.htm
> >
> > Hmm... not as friendly-looking as the alternative, but sounds like
> either
> > will do the trick.  I wonder what the reason is that IBM has multiple
> APIs
> > for functions like this... and with such wildly dissimilar names?
> Anyone
> > have any insight into that, and into whether one of these (QHFMOVSF,
> > 'Qp0lRenameKeep') is more/less capable or efficient or something than
> the
> > other?  Of course one is a program; the other a procedure, so there
> may (?)
> > be some performance gain there...


Two APIs are named here, Vern (OK, one API and one procedure), and the
question I meant to ask was: what's the difference between them.  To which
are you referring?

Also, I didn't write that part about "I think I found it.  

Dennis Lovelady
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