RE: Using RRN 0 to do Setll on arrival sequence file

[Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx>]

Lim - the simple answer is that 0 (zero) is NOT a relative record number,
so how can it position.



Alan Shore

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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/20/2006 02:47:31 PM:

> Read will fail after setll with rrn 0, which take us back to the
> original question of why would setll with rrn 0 set the cursor to end of
> file.  It should set to the beginning of file according to setll
> documentation.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:36 PM
> To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: Using RRN 0 to do Setll on arrival sequence file
>
> Ah, but did you try doing a read after the setll with 0?
>
> It'd be interesting if the read works.
>
> Charles Wilt
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lim Hock-Chai
> > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 2:24 PM
> > To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
> > Subject: RE: Using RRN 0 to do Setll on arrival sequence file
> >
> > Uummm.
> > For a non empty file, READ will be successful when cursor is at BOF.
> > READ will failed when cursor is at EOF.  The opposite applies for
> > READP.
> > So, for me, technically, they are not the same.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob P. Roche
> >
> > <clip> technically the begiining of the file is and "end of file" You
> > can set on EOF from READP also.
> > </clip>
> >
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