Re: More Stream File and DBCS issues...

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Even more information.

EVERY time it writes DBCS data it returns 3490..  A return
code perhaps?  :)

Brad

On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:43:30 -0500
 "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I found more information on this doing a debug.  It may
> or
> may not relate to my socket CCSID issue I am having.
>
> On the call to the write() API, I'm writing out 128
> bytes.
>  The return code after the call is saying it wrote 3490
> bytes.  There are probably 10 DBCS character in this
> data..
> the rest is SBCS.  But every write after this, even
> containing SBCS is corrupted.  And the RC for SBCS data
> write() calls shows the same amount of bytes written as I
> told it to write.
>
> It's almost like it's totally messing up my pointer
> position as I am using %addr() for the data parm on the
> write() API.
>
> Any ideas, I'm open ... off to scour the docs now.. 
>
> Brad
>
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:32:16 -0500
>  "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ok, this one really is weird.
> >
> > I am converting files to different formats.  The data
> > contains DBCS data and SBCS data.
> >
> > We got past the point of making a plain text or .doc
> file
> > working (.doc being basically a plain text with CRLF
> for
> > the lines).
> >
> > Now we're doing PDF.  Which technically should make
> zero
> > difference.
> >
> > We read the data in (a line of text), then write it out
> > to
> > a stream file using the write() API.
> >
> > When it hits the line with the DBCS data in it, it just
> > freaks out and starts writing garbage to the file.
> >
> > The ONLY difference in the text we're writing out is it
> > is
> > enclosed in ( and ) ends with a single quote.
> >
> > I checked the data right before the Write(), checked
> the
> > length it was passing in, and everything is fine!  It
> > writes 12 lines before this one just fine, but once it
> > hits
> > the DBCS data, boom.
> >
> > Makes no sense to me.  It is PDF data, but it's really
> > "just plain text".  And all data after it, even straigh
> > SBCS data is also garbage.
> >
> > The only thing I could find was the hex value for the
> > line
> > that it starting bombing out on, instead of writing the
> > real data, it was x'FEFE'
> >
> > The only thing I can think of here is a bug in the OS
> > with
> > the write() API.
> >
> > Anyone else seen anything like this, or have any ideas?
> >
> > So:
> >
> > eval Data = 'This is DBCS Data'
> >
> > if I write just Data, it is fine, even the DBCS data.
> >
> > If I do:
> >
> > eval Data = '(' + %trimr(Data) + ') '''
> >
> > It starts writing just garbage.. and not even the same
> > length of string garbage.  :)
> >
> > Argh  [pulling hair out]
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
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> Bradley V. Stone
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