Eileen, > well i finally figured out why my old copy of the Michaels code did not > work and the new stuff he sent did. > in one case the macros in the assembler code obtasm.s properly continued > in column 16 and in the other improperly in column 17. > But there were no assembly errors. Should not the CEENTRY macro have > flagged an error if could not recognize the parms beginning with a > blank? It must have just ignored the parms so the generated code got an > 0c4 abend. If there is a blank in column 16 on a continuation line in a macro, everything is treated as a comment. Brings back memories of reading a vsam file backward because I could not figure out why I could not do a direct read against my ACB. Regards, John
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