RE: Text on report

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth Martin wrote:

>Why are you running down an array as a solution?  

At no time did Jim specify anything that could be construed as a
requirements document, so we're all pretty much going wild "designing" THE
"solution."  I'm not sure anybody is really hardcore about any one method...

>If the letter writing is an occasional thing with rare 
>modifications then having the whole piece 
>in one easily found object makes sense.  

Agreed!

>An array at the end of a 20-line RPG program allows 
>green screen full page editing which isn't available 
>any other way without writing a file-editing program 
>and file definitions with all the attending documentation.  

Urm... as long as we're still in brainstorm mode, how about:
CPYF pf qtemp/srcpf fmtopt(*cvtsrc)
STRSEU qtemp/srcpf
CPYF qtemp/srcpf pf fmtopt(*cvtsrc)
  We used this sort of thing a lot when we had trained computer operators
who could understand FMTDTA specs.

>What could easily be a 20-line program suddenly blossoms 
>into a whole application that takes a 1/2 week 
>to write, test, and install.

Programmers just love to add bells and whistles!  Actually, this is a good
call - "time to implement" may certainly be a factor: who knows?

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY


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