RE: multinational FTPAPI

["Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

 >> The internal pointer (counter, whatever) for managing character string
pointers apparently has 16 BITS (two bytes, to make it clear). 

True - RPG is currently limited to handling named data items of 64K or less.

Note the word "currently" - this restriction has been known to present
problems for a while and will be fixed - possibly in the next release.

But I'm not sure why you think C is such a wonderful alternative - it is
limited to a single byte character string!  To go beyond that involves
playing with pointers - which you can also do in RPG.  So it would seem to
me that of the two it is RPG that is the more versatile!

Jon Paris
Partner400

www.Partner400.com 

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