Re: RPG SPECIAL exit routines -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: RPG SPECIAL exit routines
From: dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 10:23:29 -0500
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"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 12/31/2019
10:01:27 AM:

I am not aware of any such capability in SPECIAL files (it is "file"
by the way not "exit") - they originate many many moons ago and have
very limited utility.

Thanks. I call them "exit" routines because of the way we use
them. Meaning, yes they are coded on the F-spec as a file exit and we use
the EXIT op code to "pass" additional parameters back and forth as RLABL
and ULABL structures. So, I suppose I could just provide another
parameter in the RLABL structure for the record length. Was hoping it
could be done automagically though. ;-)

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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