Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for easy way to scan it all.

There's almost NO reason to continue this - we all know that it's completely foolish on the green - even with 132-wide. Hey, there the command entry is still only 80 - sheesh.

Now one could go to RDi, put some text into a CL program, and scroll to your heart's delight!

I won't do that - this game is a no-winner all around!

Vern

On 7/2/2014 4:21 PM, John Yeung wrote:

Re: CALL QCMD, then F11

Perhaps people didn't get what I meant by "in 80-column mode, the
whole screen doesn't have enough room".

If we have a 999-character variable-length parameter, then as Scott
said, that's 1998 hex characters, just for the data alone, never mind
the leading 'x' or surrounding single-quotes, or 2-byte length
specifier.

An 80-column screen has 24 lines. That's 80 * 24 = 1920 total cells
for the entire drawable portion of the display. If you could somehow
write to the status row, you'd have a nice, round 2000 cells, which
still isn't enough to enclose your parameter properly.

The only chance is if the input area is scrollable, but I'm trying it
right now, and it's not moving.

John Y.