RE: %EOF, %FOUND and the infamous Dow loop

Reeve said;
>What makes the most sense is for IBM Toronto to "finish the job."  If
BIF's
>are IBM's law of the land, IBM must provide a simple way to check the
value
>(result) of any BIF using any IBM-supplied debugging tool.



I too would like to be able to say

EVAL %EOF(FILE)

and

EVAL %EOF(FILE) = '1'

on a Debug command line.

I wonder what the programming would cost Toronto


( also wonder what to do with problems like,  What does;

EVAL %EQUAL = '1'

mean ?  If it is the result of a lookup, the lookup still failed right?

JOhn