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Mike, sorry about that., I commented them out to get a compile. these 2 lines are followed by 2 consecutive places*
 62N63                             21'-REPAIR-REPAIR-REPAIR'  
 65N63                             21'-NO PROOF OF PURCHASE'  

--- On Tue, 5/27/08, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: *PLACE
To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 4:43 PM

It looks like both *PLACE's are commented out. Are they actually printing?

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Adam West <adamster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So in this case here, there are 2 *places. For the first one, I would
change it to the "NO PROOF OF PURCHASE' and the second *place would
also be No proof of purchase?
>
> A 62N63 21'-REPAIR-REPAIR-REPAIR'
> A 65N63 21'-NO PROOF OF PURCHASE'
> A*N63 *PLACE 42
> A*N63 *PLACE 64
>
> --- On Tue, 5/27/08, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: *PLACE
> To: "RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries"
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 4:10 PM
>
> *PLACE repeats the print line up to that point, at that point. It was
> an easy way to make side-by-side copies of documents. A crash printer
> can only print through 4 or 5 copies of a document, so if you needed 8
> copies you would buy a four-part side-by-side form. Then your output
> specs could have *PLACE at the end of every line and it would print the
> right side copies exactly like the left side copies.
>
> At least, thats the way this rusty brain remembers it, Adam.
>
> Adam West wrote:
>> HI This keyword is used in O-specs for printing - it must do
something.
> But for the PRTF it is not allowed. Can someone explain what it is for or
how
> to use something else
>> ?
>>
>>
>
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