In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/23/2005 at 12:57 PM, Peter Hunkeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>How about the code sniplet below? Sure it would be better to also >verify the upper bound, i.e. 100 bytes, but is it really necessary, >especially if the program was written when batch was the way to run >programs? Yes, because all the way back to the early days of OS/360, a main program was just another subroutine with a specific type of PLIST. I know of no IBM documentation that ever suggested a limit of 100 characters for the program. If a batch program calls a second program, that second program is still running batch. >The program was defined to run in batch. And when a program running in batch calls it, then it *is* running in batch, even if the parm string is longer than 100 characters. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html