RE: external *PRTF (was: RE: 'ILE RPG' or 'RPG IV' . What's the difference!!!)

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> 
> In 99% of the cases the display file and source is going to 
> be in the same
> library as the RPG source code, on our system anyway, so this 
> has never
> been a problem.  Print Files, however, seem to float all over 
> the library
> list and get reused and I have a heck of a time finding them. 
>  Those are
> the problem, and why I feel it is much easier in the long run 
> to just use
> O specs.

In which case your decision is valid, but only for your own shop.  Since in
the shops I've worked in, PRTF source has been just as safe as DSPF source,
I don't have to worry about that and can make a different decision.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
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