Re: RPG400-L Digest V3 #74

[Terry Herrin <therrin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:10:49 EST, Gwecnal@aol.com wrote:
>I think that a redbook dedicated to using apis in rpgiv, complete with 
>prototypes, examples, and a good cross reference by function would be 
>valuable.  Maybe one
>of the list members who find them so easy has a few spare hours? <g>

I agree.  Something like an API's by Example book would be a
tremendous help.  I'd rather not admit how many hours I spent with an
API that kept bombing, until somehow I realized that a field I had
declared "4b 0" needed to be declared as "9b 0".  
<eval sarcasm = *on>
Silly me, the documentation said the field is length 4 binary, but I
should have known I really need to code it as length 9.  
<eval sarcasm = *off>

Terry Herrin
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
New Hanover Regional Medical Center
Wilmington, NC
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