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Thank you Scott, an excellent point and way of expressing! it's just that I am in the midst of some of this code that I haven't done in a very very long time > Hi Steve, > > A few tips about using this mailing list: > > a) Don't reply to unrelated messages in order to continue a previous > conversation. E-mail and news readers that do "threading" will make your > message look like it's part of the thread that you reply to. > > b) Don't change the subject of your messages when you're continuing a > previous conversation. Change it only when changing to a different > conversation. This makes it easy to group all of your messages together > and read the whole conversation at once. > > For an example of what I'm talking about, look at the Midrange.com > archives for this month: > http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200512/threads.html > > Notice the way that the messages that are related to each other are > usually grouped together? With replies indented under the message they > reply to? That makes it easy to read and follow. > > Then, look at your discussion about subfiles. It's all over the place. > Think about what it might be like to come back a year from now and try to > review that subfile discussion. Unless you happen to remember the exact > subjects of every message you posted, it'd be very difficult to track down > all of the posts relating to that discussion. > > Please understand that I'm not saying this to criticize you, but rather as > a friendly tip. There's a lot of valuable content in your thread -- if > you make it easy to read, it can help a lot of people. > > --- > Scott Klement http://www.scottklement.com > > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, steema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> OK I found a work around to the previous problem. I wrote a second >> subfile >> program that presents the data in the way required. >> > [SNIP] > -- > This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list > To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l > or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. > >
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