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I misunderstood.  I thought he was starting from 100% fixed-form

On 10/2/2019 3:51 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
Booth

You cannot go to full-free in a piecemeal fashion - that code in line 1 position 1 means the entire source starts in position 1 and is free-form from 1 to whatever the record length is.

Without the str-start-free at the start, your code is limited to position 8-80 or so.

You will not be able to start calculations in position 1 unless you use the star-star-free marker.

Regards
Vern

On 10/2/2019 1:57 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
My first reaction is: Why jump off the end of the pier; no need to go to full-free cold turkey?  Take your time, just do the C-spec free to start with?  Maybe convert an existing program with RDi's conversion tool and see how it treats your current documentation process?  I suspect you will be pleasantly surprised.




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