RE: Defining a function key...

I wasn't suggesting that the Attention Identification Byte was being
used all along. From my view, the response indicators have been used the
most, probably 90 percent or maybe even 99 percent of the code use
things like CF05(05).
I have seen a lot of System/34 code that was simply recompiled on the
System/38 and then eventually on the AS/400 and now on the iSeries,
which had been called "native code" by the vendors. But it really was
just recompiled RPGII.
Bob Cozzi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Richard B Baird
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:13 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Defining a function key...
>
>
> Bob,
>
> Not widely used in new code since '83?  do you have your dates
whacked?
>
> I've been coding on 34,36,38,400 since 82.  I've seen Kx used at least
as
> often as CA02(03), and I rarely run across any home grown code that
uses
> the aid byte.  I'll admit that I haven't worked a lot with 3rd party
> packages, but I've seen my share of code in the past 19 years and I
haven't
> noticed one method dominating any other.
>
> I didn't even know of the aid byte until I read about it in news/400
> somewhere around the late 80's - early 90's.
>
> I don't have a problem with the aid byte technique per se, I have the
> copybook in my toolbox, and have used it on a rather inconsistant
basis for
> years, but I just find it incredible that *ink would be confusing for
more
> than about 30 seconds to anyone who first encountered it.
>
> btw, remember the old 24 key cardboard templates we used to place over
our
> function keys on 5250 terminals?  mine always had a little a, b, c,
thru y
> written on it next to the appropriate keys... :)
>
> rick
> ----original message----
> Richard,
> > What I really can't understand is the comment that *inkx is obscure.
> > Kx indicators have been a solid and reliable part of IBM operating
> systems
> > (3, 32, 34, 36, 38, 400) for oh, say, 40 years now?  Obscure?
>
> True enough, however they also haven't been widely used in new code
> since 1983.
>
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