> > >> PDSEs have only one advantage: <snip> >> > > Well, they do have at least one other advantage: they can store > program objects, which allows entry points with long, case-sensitive > names, which is sometimes handy. > <http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html> >
No not really. Longer names may be contained within the program object, e.g. "CALL someverylongname" and the binder will make sense of it. External entrypoints (those that could be used by ATTACH, LINK etc.) are still only 8 bytes long. -- This email might be from the artist formerly known as CC (or not) You be the judge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
