donna writes:
> i was going to say that i didn't think rfa would support what
> you're trying to do...however, i thought i'd try to prove my
> assumption (being scientific, wirt :-)....
>
> 1) i built a ksamxl file on system a
> 1a) used fcopy to put something into this file
> 2) opened a dsline to system b and logged onto system b
> 3) built an identical ksamxl file on system b (let's call it 'x')
> 4) hopped back to system a
> 5) issued a file equation -- file x;dev=systemb#
> 6) fcopy'd from the ksamxl file on system a to *x
> 7) worked like a charm
>
> so much for assumptions :-)

Yeah, but you didn't try to build the file remotely which he was trying.  So
it looks like remote *access* works (which isn't surprising because the
FOPEN/FREAD/FWRITE parameters won't be any different) but *creating* such a
file with HPFOPEN apparently doesn't work over RFA.

G.

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