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- From: mccarthyd@CSVAX.COSC.BROCKU.CA
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Dec Forms problem
- Message-ID: <9209030742.AA19255@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:31:45 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- I have the following Dec Forms problem I am posting for a friend. Any help
- or manual pointing would be greatly appreciated.
-
- "I need to pass an array of (for example) 2000 lines of 80 bytes per line.
-
- I have a COBOL data structure similar to the following:
- 01 ws-invoice-record.
- 02 ws-invoice-blocks occurs 10 times.
- 03 ws-invoice-block.
- 04 ws-invoice-line-list occurs 200 times.
- 05 ws-invoice-line pic x(80).
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- Dec Forms expects the data passed in a FORMS$SEND call to be passed by
- descriptor. However the maximum length for a character string descriptor
- is
- 65535 bytes. The record above exceeds this limit.
-
- Thus, how do I pass a large array to forms. The array should be received
- into
- a large group on the forms side (for scrolling purposes)."
-
- Please direct any responses to me at
- mccarthyd@csvax.cosc.brocku.ca
-
- Thanks in advance.
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