Back in about 1989 I wrote some clists to be shipped as part of an IBM product. I *think* our shipped clists were in FB 80 format but I don't remember for sure. What I did was to keep my actual code in columns 9 through 72 so that the clist could be copied into either FB 80 or VB 255 with or without sequence numbers without clobbering any of the code. --Roger
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net <shmuel%2bibm-m...@patriot.net>> wrote: > In <db9405830909102240xade49f9o9adc503905547...@mail.gmail.com>, on > 09/11/2009 > at 03:40 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> said: > > >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 > > No; for RECFM=VB the sequence numbers are on the left. However, the RENUM > command used to be BAD for unnumbered RECFM=VB. Have they fixed it to > shift the data right 8 columns before plugging in sequence numbers? > > >It should be 133 anyway, makes coding for my 1403 line printer a cinch > >:) > > Why not 145 for the 1443 or 242 for the 3800? > > -- > 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
