Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Dealing with very large blocks of character data
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:24:33 -0600
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On 11/30/2011 12:15 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

The C APIs are actually pretty easy to use,

They don't look too difficult ... it's just the replacement of all those bif's that's kind of daunting.

but as Henrik says, you can use plain ole' RPG to do much of what
you want.

To a certain extent, yes ... but when the text size gets beyond 64k, will they still work?

I have a bunch of RPG procedures to do memory
scanning/replacing/trimming etc. Want them?

Sure ... if you could post them to http://code.midrange.com, that would be great.

david

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