RE: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Neil,

Yep and when I was hacking rather than designing my old code looked like that 
too!  Most of those tendencies got 
knocked out of me at IBM.

Question for you though; Why did you need the subroutines?  Oh! not enough 
indicators to condition the code.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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> Date: Thu, 07 May 98 20:28:18 -0600
> From: "Neil Palmer" <npalmer@NxTrend.com>
> To: "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
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> Subject: RE: what is unclear about 01 02 03 -Reply

> 
> Hey Simon !
> I wrote a program back in the 70's that used all indicators 01-99 - and
> I was DAMN proud of it at the time too !    :-), so then you move on to
> KA-KY, U1-U8, OA, OF, OV, etc. etc. - then you start saving them in one
> byte fields and restoring them for subroutines !
> I think I ran into a problem when I could only AND together 7 lines in
> the calcs ! 
> It was my first RPG program, and I'd taught myself how to wrote it
> reading the manuals on the night shift while I was an operator.
> 
> 
> Neil Palmer                                AS/400~~~~~      

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