On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:02:54 -0700, Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>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.
>
In my program, I'm using 'FOPEN'.  Does FCOPY use 'FOPEN' or 'HPFOPEN' ?
I'll make a copy of my program and change it to use 'HPFOPEN' and see if I
get the same results...

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