Re: subfile issue

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Joep Beckeringh
<joep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I see only two comments advising not to use READC. Jack said 'I have
been bit many times by missed readc's for various reasons' but did not
specify whether READC or he was to blame; Booth just said 'Get rid of a
lot of headaches. Forget the read'. So you're slightly exaggerating :-)

Joep,

My missed readc's were particularily from a canned package that was very
much a loaded can of worms. It was a core set of processing logic with 6
or 8 individual DSPF's. (depending upon how you looked at it.) The code
itself, by it's own design loaded, processed each time you hit enter, and
re-processed the subfile once more just to wrap-up what it was doing.
Needless to say there were a few times I had to set SFLNXTCHG *on from 1 to
rrn just to keep it running. But that's another story.

Sometimes things are necessary at the onset but after years of modifications
they inevitabily blow the KISS philosophy right out of the water. If it
can be kept simple and straight forward then by all means do it. But
sometimes other methods can force us to keep it simple. No matter how long
ago it was written.

Thanks
Jack W. Long Jr.