RE: Named Indicators...

[Ken & Gloria Cox <kgc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

right on. Adapt  remember the bosses style is always better or at least he
thinks so.
After all he set those standards 10 years ago when he wrote that menu
program he still
brags about. Of course that was the last time he saw a piece of code.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of End of the Trail
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 6:26 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Named Indicators...
>
>
> 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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