RE: Small subroutines WAS:RPG Indicators

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

Dave,

Your points are well taken.  Maybe I should quit the contracting business
and (hopefully) find a forward-looking employer that either already invested
in the advanced tools you speak of or would be willing to do so.  Either
that, or hope that the next OS/400 version/release will include Code/400 in
the ADT.

As a contractor, my voice only has so much weight.  I remember asking
Prodata several years ago if they would consider a "travelling contractor"
license for their DBU product, and they responded that I could get a
commission for each DBU product I "sold" to my clients.  (Now, thank
goodness for WRKDBF!)

Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaw, David [SMTP:dshaw@spartan.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 9:51 AM
> To:   'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: Small subroutines WAS:RPG Indicators
> 
> Comment at end.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bale, Dan [mailto:DBale@lear.com]
> > 
> > > Also, Much Grief is caused by the hideous inadequacies of SEU.
> > > The closest SEU comes to a bookmark is to write down line 
> > > numbers on a scrap of paper.  Code/400 and Flex/Edit both offer 
> > > easy to use bookmarks.  Jump to the definition and right back to 
> > > the procedure, or open them in separate windows.
> > 
> > Buck, although I have *very* limited experience using GUI 
> > source editors, I
> > tend to agree that SEU is a major gripe of mine.  When I 
> > happen to spend a
> > lot of time in SEU, especially when I have to modify someone else's
> > monolith, I get distracted with "Boy, wouldn't it be nice to 
> > have an editor
> > that could (fill in the blank)?"
> > 
> > Someday we'll look back on AS/400's SEU like we do now with 
> > S/34-S/36 SEU.
> > Remember?  The one-line-at-time-editor?  <shudder>
> > 
> > - Dan Bale
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Some of us already do.  I started using Flex/Edit (the original DOS-OS/2
> version) back in '92.  When I came here last year I had to switch from
> Flex
> to Code/400, but that wasn't too bad.  The main difference between SEU
> and,
> say, Data General's old NSPEED, to me, is that I can start SEU up when I
> feel nostalgic. <grin>
> 
> And all of you who complain about RLU - try Flex/Designer or Code/400 DSU
> and you won't much care about RLU any more.
> 
> Dave Shaw
> Spartan International, Inc.
> Spartanburg, SC
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