Re: RE: Array question

Its not that many people are scared of the manuals. I find that in general, 
like most of IBM Manuals (whether mainframe or AS/400), you need to know what 
you are looking for before you know where to look. There have been occasions  I 
have searched through numerous IBM manuals on the internet, (especially for 
API's ) only to be told that the information Im searching for, resides in a 
particular manual I would never have considered. I have even called IBM's 
support line asking for directions to which manual I need to review, and on a 
couple of occasions, its taken them some time to come up with an answer.

>>> Colin Williams <Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk> 05/05 4:45 AM >>>
Definitely agree with you there. Many people are scared of the manuals,
for some reason?

-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 8:27 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com 
Subject: Re: Array question




Rob wrote:
>I really don't feel that we've answered the original question yet.

Hmmm, I thought I did yesterday when I referred the poster to
Chapter 9 of the ILE RPG Reference manual!  Can anyone program
effectively (in any language) without being intimately familiar
with the manuals?  Knowing how (and when) to read a manual is
probably the most important thing a student of programming can
learn.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com 


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