Re: Passing a file as a parameter to a second Program -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Passing a file as a parameter to a second Program
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:45:46 -0500
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On 2013/2/4 3:30 PM, RPGLIST wrote:

It does Scott, however it does reaise the question though when passing the
parm (file) is it actually passing it or just a pointer to the data? IE:
If I pass a large file, how much of a load is it going to put on the
system?

Then On 2013/2/4 4:28 PM, Anderson, Kurt wrote:

"A file is always passed by reference."

Just to clarify Kurt's response, the "file" here is RPG's internal information about the file. The _data_ in the file is not passed at all, not even by reference.

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