Re: What the beep is wrong with this? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: What the beep is wrong with this?
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:27:16 -0500
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On 2026-01-24 7:07 p.m., Jon Paris wrote:

I'm playing with Bob and asked him (it?) to create an RPG program to read an IFS file.

I'm familiar with all of the required APIs (or thought I was) - but the Bob program will not open the file and I'm danged if I can see why. Here's an extract of the code which demonstrates the issue.
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FWIW, your code worked for me. I just changed the FilePath initialization to one of my files.

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