Re: CODE/400

** Reply to note from Richard Baird <rbbaird@premsys.com> Tue, 03 Mar 1998 
09:40:44 -0500

> I don't use macros much.  back when I had a terminal on the 36, I used up all 
>24 of my record and play keys used up with procedures
> and such (I had a cmdkey template around the keys to tell me what they were.  
>since the 400, most of those could be replaced with
> pdm options.  Like you said, the things I could use them for I wouldn't use 
>enough to remember the key map.

Well, I recorded the macro the other day. Under CA and SEU, I recorded a
macro that marks eight characters to the right, copies, F10, t, enter, F
<paste> a <tab><down>X99999 enter. 

It has the effect of allowing me to do a similar thing under SEU to what I
had discussed under Code/400. In other words, I attached this macro to
Alt-v and now when I put the cursor over a variable and hit alt-v, it
limits my view to lines with that variable. 

It is a big benefit to SEU coding. 

> Which goes to your point - keep up with technology or be crushed by it.

Yes, I think it is important to keep up with technology. It is also
important to realize some of the ROI on technology before jumping to
something new. So, while I feel that it is certainly valid to not bother
buying the latest and greatest for a few years, there comes a time when
you have to admit that you can make a giant leap.

> you have to debug your programs?  mine work the first time I compile them 
>(removing my tongue from the whole it dug in my cheek)

No! No! I debug OTHER people's programs! Yeah, that's it, that's the
ticket... Why, I remember the day I hired a programmer to work with me and
I learned that the compiler could generate error messages!

> Rick
 

Chris Rehm
Mr.AS400@ibm.net

How often can you afford to be unexpectedly out of business?
Get an AS/400.
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