Re: Passing Parms to an RPG Program

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

Jon,

>Am I the only one horrified by all the suggestions of passing numeric parms as
>hex etc. that have appeared in response to this question?

No

>There is only one correct answer - any program called from the command line
>should define numeric parms as 15,5 packed.  

Personally, I think the only correct answer is to simply create a
command to call the program.  Commands are so simple to define; I'm
continually amazed at how under-utilized user created commands seem to
be on the 400!

I don't think *any* program should be called from the command line.
IMHO, the CALL command is for use in programs.  Create commands for
everything else.  I even create commands for many programs that I
don't expect to call from a command line.  It makes for such an easy
way to extend CL functionality.

Doug
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