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mgjagadish · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 3:06 am Post subject: fetch and call

cAN WE HAVE FETCH AND CALL TOGETHER IN pli programs
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anbesivam · Beginner Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 66 Topics: 14

Yes. You need to have FETCh and then followed by CALL for the Fetched module.

Usaully we cod as follows:

Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:35 am Post subject:

Actually, you do not need the FETCH if you have RELEASE. The compiler will spot one of these and realise that the called module will not be linked into the main load module and will generate the necessary code. However, it is not wrong and I always do FETCH/CALL/RELEASE in my own programs.
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kgaugelo · Beginner Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 1 Topics: 0

how does the call and copy statements work, mostly when it come to copying/calling external programs???

Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 3:54 am Post subject:

kgaugelo

You should start new thread for a new topic.

COPY is a directive to the compiler to copy in some source code into your source code before it compiles it.

CALLing a program happens when your program is already executing and it CALLs another program to do some function.

This is probably something that you could have found out by looking in the index of the manual for COPY and CALL.
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