RE: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply

[Vernon Hamberg <hambergv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden

At 06:11 PM 5/4/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>>Scott Cornell wrote:
><snip>
>& "0" = No, False, Off.  When 01 is placed in columns 9-10, 12-13,
>or 14-15 (not being a geezer, I probably have the actual columns
>wrong :)) of RPG III source code, it says "Only execute this line of
><snip>
>
>Now Scott, you must be a geezer if you know the column numbers. The only way
>I could possibly use the l-hand indicators would be to prompt for them in
>SEU. Hmmm, f I still use SEU does that make me a next-generation geezer?

Let's have a youngest geezer contest. <g>

"But just consider this", I use SEU in PC5250. I've mapped Cut|Copy|Paste
to the standard Windows accelerator keys (not the OS/2 ones, which I'm not
used to), I set up macros like crazy. And I turn on Hot Spots, so that
function keys become buttons.For me, this is highly adequate as a GUI
source editor—really! It's GUI, and you get to choose how you want to use
the interface—a key design item oft left out of GUI designs. And you keep
ALL the GOOD features that SEU has, like prompting & help for ALL AS/400
common languages, including CL. (No flame intended, sorry.) Flex/Edit, for
one, gives you absolute no help on CL commands when writing in that
environment, and no prompting. Don't know about CODE/400. But the clincher
is, it's not very expensive—you _do_ need to license PC5250.

Because we saw very little gain from going to, say, Flex/Edit, or CODE/400
for source entry, we have stayed with the above approach. PC5250 makes a
fantastic GUI editor.

Just a thought.

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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