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Jon,

Good points, this would allow me to use something like the old
Sort-using-giving that I did back in COBOL days, which with SORTA I have
to do some faking with...

Don in DC

On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 Jon.Paris@halinfo.it wrote:

> I have to agree with Hans that IBM should spend its money adding things to
> the compiler that I can't do for myself.
> One such feature (which is requested over and over when I teach dynamic
> memory usage) is the ability to set the top of an array or MODS.
> 
> Even when you don't use dynamic memory this is useful as both SORTA and
> LOOKUP assume that the array is "full" which it rarely is.  It would be
> much nicer to be able to simply use %Elem to set the active number of
> elements.
> 
> Jon.Paris@halinfo.it
> 
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