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