RE: paradox ?

["Richard Jackson" <richardjackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is only paradoxical if you think that the help is right and complete.
As soon as you admit that the help is wrong or incomplete then there is no
paradox and the truth can be discovered by testing.  In my limited
experience, the truth for an operating device is never paradoxical.  You
already know that the help is wrong so why is this a problem?

Richard Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mi400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-mi400@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Leif Svalgaard
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:49 PM
To: MI400 List
Subject: paradox ?


folks,

here is somewhat of a paradox:

A system-state program cannot call a user-state program.
How can QCMD or similar system-state programs call one of
my user-state programs? Or how can OS/400 services
(presumably system-state) call user-state exit programs?

The help text from DSPPGM is quite wrong and misleading:

                   Program State - Help

The state of the program.  Valid values are:

*USER
    The program can call user-state programs.
(then how can you ever call an API?)

*SYSTEM
    The program can call user- or system-state programs.
(plainly wrong - cannot call user-state programs)

*INHERIT
    The program runs under (inherits) the same state as  its calling
program.



Leif Svalgaard

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