Re: Knotty puzzle with chaining to files not known at compile time

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/07/2006, at 8:57 AM, James H H Lampert wrote:

> Clearly, the fact that we don't know which of these files
> exist suggests treating them as USROPN, and not knowing
> the record structure suggests treating them as
> program-described. But any ideas on how I would chain to
> these files?

Forget the RPG file support. Investigate the Record I/O functions in 
the the C Run-time. _Rxxxxxx()

You can use these from RPG if you wish. They'll let you handle the file 
dynamically including building a key on the fly and chaining.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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