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ok, this is the place I usually start getting lost when trying to maintain this new stuff. What are you doing, and what is the advantage? Are these added lines of code just to prevent having to define a field as *HMS in a prototype? _______________________ Booth Martin Booth@MartinVT.com http://www.MartinVT.com _______________________ Jon.Paris@hal.it Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com 09/19/2000 03:20 PM Please respond to RPG400-L To: RPG400-L@midrange.com cc: Subject: Re: how to let my program sleep a while >> If it were me writing this, I would use the /COPY member and declare and constants in that. Perhaps put most of my constants in one file. Since RPG IV now supports both nested /COPY and conditional compilation directives, you can combine these to good effect for handling constants. Put all constants (or at least the set you want) into a single source member. Put the following (or similar) at the beginning of the source member. /If Defined(sourcemembername) /EOF /EndIf /Define(sourcemembername) * Actual copy member content starts here. This avoids the possibility of copying the file twice if it is referenced from multiple prototype copy members. I have also seen conditional compilation directives used to selectively copy parts of a set of prototypes or constants. In this case the proto sets an appropriate condition name prior to issuing the /COPY. The source containing the constants uses conditioning to ensure that constants required are copied once and once only. +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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