According to document A1737372 from HP's search database:
     "if you access a file using FOPEN or HPFOPEN, the only way you can
then use the file is by calling other file system intrinsics, such as
FREAD, FWRITE, or FCLOSE."

I hope this helps.

Juan Rojas.

Klaus Franke wrote:

> gentle readers,
> i am now trying to write to a posix-fifo-file from a cobol program.
> For this i use hpfopen with all items/inums, i could find.
>
> My programm works fine, but there is no output written to the fifo.
>
> Perhaps, someone can tell me, which are the correct items/inums to
> write to an
>  existing fifo-file (/tmp/fifo)?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Klaus Franke