RE: external *PRTF

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

The "resistance is futile" tack, eh?  ;-)

Please understand, I've got a lot of experience using external printer
files.  Everything that can be done in O-specs I know how to accomplish in
DDS.  I have also used DDS functions not available for internal printer
files.

Along those lines, I have used RLU more than enough to form the poor opinion
I have of it.

In many of the shops I have contracted with, this is a moot point.  Shop
standards usually dictate whether to use internal or external printer files.

Hey, isn't Code/400 supposed to be included in the ADT licensed product next
release?  Maybe that will get me "assimilated".  

Have you noticed?  I'm starting to get the hint on the virtues of
externalizing.  So, stop hitting me already! ;-)

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Guthrie [SMTP:GaryGuthrie@home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:44 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: external *PRTF
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Don't fight it. Rather than try to come up with justification for not
> using external print files, just give in and use them. Trust me, there
> are reasons. Many of them. But rather than exhaust myself extolling the
> virtues of external print files, providing justification for you to use
> them, I would invite you to spend the effort to learn about them and
> then decide whether to use them or not.
> 
> Gary Guthrie
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