VB 255 gives you more flexibility, I just find that long character strings are easier to code if you can use the whole 255 bytes.
So many times have novices asked me why their REXX was failing and it was sequence numbers in 73-80. Can still happen for VB 255 but always seems to be that folks don't look in 73-80 because they can't see it without scrolling right on a standard terminal display. But having said that, my REXX lib is FB 80, for no good reason :) I also use some R4 REXX and Notepad doesn't care about FB 80. It should be 133 anyway, makes coding for my 1403 line printer a cinch :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANSI rhymes with Nancy - real programmers use RECFM=FM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: >>o "Industry standard"? Not any more. (But I can remember when ISPF (at >>the time SPF) panels were distributed as VB; IBM later switched to FB >>(circa 1980?). > > Later, IIRC. > I think it came out with XA. > Also, that was the same time they renamed it and split out PDF. > - > Too busy driving to stop for gas! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
