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:>Granted that guns have safeties (most of them, anyway). But if you have
:>to worry about whether it's on or off, you're already doing something
:>very wrong.
:>There's no excuse for knowing what you're doing and PLANNING AHEAD. I've
:>always coded my programs with the assumption that the parm field might
:>be as long as 255 bytes, the max that can be described in a single byte.
Is this tongue in cheek? The length has always been described as a halfword.
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No, I just always ASSUMED that the length, while limitted to 100 bytes
in JCL, would never exceed 255 bytes. With the advent of USS File names,
I can see that my assumption wasn't valid. Mostly my programs are
controlled by card-image input now.
Rick
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