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Douglas Handy wrote: > > But only if you use program described files. For some reason they aren't > allowed with externally described files, though I don't understand why that > restriction exists (perhaps to discourage their use?). > I think it's probably because the names of the fields on the regular I specs are generated from the names of the fields in the file, and the names of the lookahead fields would have to be different. At least for RPG III, this would mean that the lookahead fields would have had to be program-described, and they probably thought that would be a bad idea.
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