Re: RPG Cycle

You use the RPG cycle to do Maths. You read a Primary file check for control
breaks etc.
Boy thats a good trick. I'd love to learn that one then I'll eat humble pie.
No one taught me RPG, got it all out of the manuals over 20 yrs ago.
PS. as for maths I have a nice ARC- COSINE routine I done in RPG II 15 years 
ago.

Gene Hockemeyer wrote:

> 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 angels 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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