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Douglas Handy wrote:
>
> Well, couldn't that just have been handled the same way you rename a field
> from an external format, even under RPG III?
>
> In my experience with look-ahead fields in the 70's, you typically only
> cared about a few fields at most and only list them under the ** I-spec, not
> the whole record format. Why couldn't the field rename columns be used to
> supply the new name?
>
That's a good point.
I can't guess at any other possible reasons for disallowing it. It's
possible that "they" had the same thinking as I just did.
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