On Mon, 21 May 2012 08:43:14 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 05/21/2012 at 12:15 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>Those generate parameter lists with a distinct CMS flavor. > >Not even close; 8 character tokenization is mickey mouse. The PLIST >has a distinct REXX flavor. ... > Well, then, a CMS-Rexx flavor, with a pointer and a length. I remember being surprised and dismayed when Rexx first appeared in TSO/E 2 that address LINK/ATTACH (the -PGM and -MVS forms appeared only later) that there was no way to generate an OS-conventional R1 PLIST.
> If you want to pass back variables to the >caller, this is the way to go. Of course, which form you should use is >determined by how you code the routine. > Perhaps the best way. But address LINKPGM can also be used for the purpose, particularly when interfacing with programs expecting Assembler CALL linkage. IBM does it in 'SYS1.SAMPLIB(CSFTEST)'. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
