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That works!  Personally, I've changed most of my loop-starting CHAINs to
SETLL/READE; it's more readable to me.  But then again, I don't code
many MOVE instructions anymore either <grin>.

Joe

> From: Barbara Morris
> 
> Your "%DATA" doesn't really fit with SETLL and SETGT, but I think any
> new "continue-io-loop" builtin should.
> 
> But you can already use a single builtin function for both CHAIN and
> READ.  EOF and record-not-found have non-error statuses of 00011 and
> 00012; a status of zero means it's ok to continue processing the file.
> 
> Chain ( SomeKey ) File;
> DoW %Status( File ) = *zero;
>    // do something
>    ReadE ( SomeKey ) File;
> EndDo;


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