On Thu, 21 May 2009 15:54:08 -0400 John Kington <john.king...@convergys.com>
wrote:

:>> 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.

Nowadays I believe you get a warning about the trailing comma.

--
Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com>
http://www.dissensoftware.com

Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel


Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me,
you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain.

I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems,
especially those from irresponsible companies.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
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

Reply via email to