Re: Named Indicators...

["End of the Trail" <endofthetrail@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tsk,Tsk BOYS!   I thought the S3x (S36 against S38) Wars very over.  A truce
was formed the AS400 (the best of both worlds).

I came from the S36 world. KA, KC, KG, and KL were unspoken standards.  I
have also worked on the 400 in a couple of S38 shops.  The unspoken
standards; (01-24) are function keys.  As a matter of fact, the programmers
in these shops did not even know that the *INK? exsisted.

That the great part of consulting... Learning from others (some good, some
bad).  I have learned to adapt.

Eurrat
End of the Trail        endofthetrail@skyenet.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Felber <poprpg@csepromo.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Named Indicators...


>
>> And I, just as personally, hate to see the ink* indicators.  Our shop
>> standard is that *in01-*in24 are reserved for function keys and if you
see
>> one you know what it means. Boy do I dislike seeing *inkj and wondering
>what
>> was pressed (<counting on fingers> a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j - 10 - he pressed
>F10.
>> No, wait.  'i' does not count. Start over a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,j  - 9 - he
>pressed
>> F9.  Wow.  Sure am glad the programmer did not just set *in09 on when the
>> user pressed F9.  That would be way hard.
>
>But the problem with this is it only works if you have all home grown
>software, and followed the standard from day one.  if you ever purchase
some
>software and it uses *in10 for some type of chain indicatator, then you
have
>to double check to make sure it really is F10 (which it isn't).  and as for
>having to look things up, you never look up an opcode becase you just
>happened to forget something like which indicatator it would turn on if
>someone unusual happens.  *INKC is ALWAYS F3.  unless you do something
>really unusual and try to make it hard on future modifications.
>
>Brad Felber
>CSE, Inc
>bradf@csepromo.com
>
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