RE: question on survey question

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

The PTF would come into play because the customer would want the source
code.  They would want to compile it on their dinosaur of a machine.  In
order to get this new release of the compiler, the minimum you'd have to do
is apply a PTF.  Many customers would pitch a fit because they don't put
ptf's on for the same reason that they don't put releases on.

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin



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Who said anything about a PTF?  The RPG language is what changes.  Unless
there is some new OS specific API or object formats have changed or
something, a new RPG language feature still boils down to the same set of
MI
instructions.  When the %DIV BIF was added to RPG (V4R4?) was division
something new?  No - just a new source language construct that turns into
the same old division operation in MI.  But go ahead and try to compile a
pgm with %DIV or %REM to V4R3 and see what happens.


Tom

 |  -----Original Message-----
 |  From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
 |  Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 15:23
 |  Subject: RE: question on survey question
 |

 |   Ok so now you can develop from your
 |  older release to a
 |  newer release.  But you still can't use the new feature
 |  because you don't
 |  know which customers have the ptf installed or not.

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