Re: Display file puzzlement

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/04/2008, at 3:01 PM, John McKee wrote:
> Thanks Booth and Simon.  When I had a class on this in 1983 (can't  
> BELIEVE it
> was that long ago), either the keywords did not as yet exist, or  
> teacher did
> not choose to present them.

ERRMSG (and ERRMSGID) has been around since at least 1986 and  
probably earlier because it's not marked with change flags in my copy  
of the S/38 Programming Reference Summary.

ERRSFL was introduced with OS/400 VRM220 in 1992.

> Every keyword I have pickup over the years since
> has been by reading a manual.  It was a LOT easier to read a manual
> when it was
> printed.  I was actually taking the things home to read.

As did most of us who wanted to learn. However that seems to be an  
"old fogey" way of doing things. Seems to me the "newbies" don't want  
to learn. They just want the answer--as evidenced by the ridiculous  
number of questions on these lists that could easily be answered by  
20 minutes research.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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