If you don't want your message file to act like a message file, make it
something else! Try
COPY msgfile,nuthafile
then play in nuthafile, leaving msgfile alone. using FCOPY or other
non-COPY tool, you can change nuthafile's type.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Keepers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 2:26 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Message file question
>
>
> A fellow developer of mine is attempting to read an entire
> message file
> nondestructively. Several attempts have been made using the
> fcontrol 47 and
> read commands but the application just keeps reading the same
> record in the
> message file. Is there a way to nondestructively read a
> record in a message
> file, move the pointer, do a nondestructively read, move the
> pointer, etc until
> the end of the message file?
>
> Any assistance on this matter would be most appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jeff
>
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