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  • Subject: Re: RPG Cycle
  • From: ghockemeyer@xxxxxxxx (Gene Hockemeyer)
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:09:31 -0500

ummm evidently you have never done any mathematical programming .>!!

!!!  didn`t mean to start this ruckus .. yesterday ... but it shows what
people are being taught .. !

end of this subject ...

-----Original Message-----
From: fkolmann@revlon.com.au <fkolmann@revlon.com.au>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: RPG Cycle


>You said 'turn off' , what do you mean by 'turn off'. IMO not having P or S
files
>effectively turns off the cycle.
>In any case every programming language has a cycle of sorts, to start and
end a
>program. Even the OS has a bootstrap program that is a 1 loop cycle.  I do
not want
>to count angles on heads of pins so this is my last comment.
>Do you seriously think I am not aware that the cycle exists, show me a
'BATCH'
>program that uses the cycle without using P and S file (no fair cheating by
using the
>EXCPT or UPDATE or WRITEop code). It was EXCPT that first broke the cycle.
>
>Jeff Crosby wrote:
>
>> fkolmann@revlon.com.au wrote:
>>
>> > > . Show me the command the turns off the RPG cycle .!??
>> > > david@midrange.com
>> >
>> > For batch programs if you dont have Primary or Secondary files you dont
have an
>> > RPG cycle.
>> > For Interactive Programs,perhaps the S36s can help.
>>
>> Wrong.  It's still there, nicely compiled into the object program.
>> You're just not making any use of it.
>
>
>
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