Converting to /free

[GLS400]

Hi All:

I just ran accross Craig Rutledge's programs for converting from fixed to /free. I highly recomend them.

http://home.alltel.net/craigru/jcrcmd2.html

From the page given above there is a link to "path to free" documentation and a link to utilities. All is open source and IMO does a far better job of conversion than IBM's lpex editor.

JCR4MAX converts z-add mult etc to eval statements in fixed format. It even does moves if both factor2 and result are alpha. It even allows conversion to all lower case/all upper case etc.

JCR5FPRT creates a fixed/free comparison report so you know exactly what to fix BEFORE converting.

JCR5FREE does the conversion

Hope this helps someone else, if not you can always get your money back because it's FREE.

GLS

[tomholden]

Re: Converting to /free

i just got those earlier today...what a coinkidink...but if you dig around in the source you'll see that you need to run CVTRPGSRC then run the JCR* commands over the converted source members. but i does somethings i like...moving *LIKE defined variables to D specs for one...now if he'd only done that for fields defined on normal calc specs...

[littlepd]

Re: Converting to /free

...moving *LIKE defined variables to D specs for one...now if he'd only done that for fields defined on normal calc specs...

I'm surprised to hear you say that. The versoin that I have does convert variables defined in c-specs to d-specs.

[Chipper]

Re: Converting to /free

Oof -- I forgot to post something about this. I just recently found out that the JCR stuff is available again. IIRC, at one point, it wasn't.

[Chipper]

Re: Converting to /free

Another helpful thing that Craig wrote is called "A Path to /Free"

http://home.alltel.net/craigru/jcr5free.html

[NickLitten]

Re: Converting to /free

At a site with good old fashioned SEU only
I know.. I know... /me shakes head

Just out of interest - anyone got an updated link to the source for this?

[NickLitten]

Re: Converting to /free

ignore that... lesson learned = never type before googling..

http://home.windstream.net/craigru/jcrcmd2.html

[jamief]

Re: Converting to /free

Best questions are those that answer themselves

Advertise that site!!!!

http://www.projex.com/

jamie

[John Andersen]

Re: Converting to /free

You know CODE400 (the part of WDSC, not the website ;-) ) will convert your stuff over to /free... it skips over the incompatible stuff and leave it in C+ specs but it does work pretty well.

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[NickLitten]

Re: Converting to /free

At a site with good old fashioned SEU only
I know.. I know... /me shakes head
.....

I mentioned Code/Wdsc/Rdi and was just faced with a lot of very old gray bearded blank stares and mutters...

these guys will only allow SEU and think all those Externally defined file types and new fangled inventions like Logical Files, IF/DO loops and any-opcode-introduced-since-1992 is quite neat....

TRUE STORY - I wrote a 30 line utility program to read a couple of files and update some flag settings.. the guy I'm working with complained so much about it being /FREE I had to inset little 'C's, take off the ';' and right adjust everything so that it became RPG3. honest.

(I'm changing my job title to CODE ARCHAEOLOGIST)