Re: [WEB400] Displaying standard-out

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Jon,

You wrote:
>Sorry - the answer is "No" as far as I can tell.  I spent some time
>working on this a while back (I think the V4R1 timeframe) but couldn't
>get it to work.  I eventually heard from one of the Rochester developers
>that changes made in V3R7(?) meant that the CGI std out interfaces don't
>use the "real" stdout anymore and hence the OVR will have no effect.

Don't you mean that AS/400 now uses "real" stdio (i.e., file descriptors)
rather than the previous "fake" stdio via files STDIN and STDOUT that were
a holdover from EPM?

>Interestingly, because COBOL (as well as C of course) programs can
>actually write to stdout, you can use this approach for COBOL CGI
>programs - just not RPG.

Surely RPG can use "real" stdio via the C functions (e.g., printf, getc,
gets, etc.?  Isn't that the same as the COBOL DISPLAY and ACCEPT functions
which is what I presume you mean?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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