Re: Rename fields in "I" specs? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Rename fields in "I" specs?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:04:46 -0600
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Simon Coulter wrote:

Defining the file in RPG with an E in the Format column makes it
externally-described (and the compiler will look for the external 
description). Specifying an F in the Format column makes it 
program-described and the compiler will expect appropriate I and O 
specs.


Yeah, that's what I thought.

It was mostly a shot in the dark regarding a CCSID conversion problem.

david

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