Re: Returning message from queue

I am very interested in communicating with people in a professional
manner, and I do so on this forum.

However, critisizing other people for not living up to your exalted
expectations is not what I see as the goal of this forum nor would I
qualify it as professional behavior.

Albert


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My apologies.  I am very sorry to have brought this up.  I'm accustomed to
dealing with professionals who are interested in (even concerned about)
their communicability.  It's my bad.  I should not have expected the same
professionalism here.

On the other hand, a good read of The Elements of Style - or even a return
to third grade grammar (not grammer) might change opinions about what is/not
within the _rules_ of the language.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
"Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since
then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most."
       -- George R. Kirkpatrick

Like many, you assume that spelling and grammer MUST follow certain
rules. Surprisingly to some, there are no such rules. They are only
reccomendations that serve to standardize the written word to aid in
its understanding. In other words, I can write things any damn way I
want and no one is going to arrest me.

Criticism is only valid when the usage intereferes with understanding
the intent of the writer. Otherwise you are merely nit-picking.

If you had trouble understanding that this was a question then let me
clear it up for you. It was.

Albert



On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Laine, Rogers" <rlaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have the below CL program that will not return the message text

from

&MSGTXT in the RCVMSG command.



What am I missing here.

Like many, one thing you're missing is the fact that a question, at

least in English, should end with the ? symbol.  (Sorry; it's one of
my peeves and the rule seems to be heavily abused here.  Don't get me
started on its/it's).

Otherwise, I suggest a good look at the MSGTYPE parameter.

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