RE: (2) The target for a numeric operation is too small!!!!!

[bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:11:03 -0500
>From: "Leland, David" <dleland@Harter.com>
>
>There are a number of RPG messages which I wish you could do an "I" or "R"
>on (such as the failure of a called program) but that's just the way
>messages work in RPG.  I doubt that'll change either.

Do you really want your users to reply I or R to inquiry messages?  How
are they supposed to know when it's ok?  What if they answer 'G'?

By the way, I include myself in the list of users of a program I write
that has a life of more than a few hours.

A simple rule to live by: Never let users see an inquiry message.  Use
a PSSR, INFSRs, whatever - if you can rely on a human who doesn't know
your code to decide what to do with an inquiry message, you can rely
on your code to decide what to do with an error.

Barbara Morris


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