Re: How were first 5 positions used in RPG III?

Yes, I recall the old days (not saying "good" old days 😂) when we used
coding sheets and keypunch cards.
What a mess if you didn't use them and then dropped the source deck.
Aiiiiiiiii.

Much better now with the new editors and of course RDi.

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I wouldn't think it was punch card numbers. I assume RPGIII & Sys38 was
after the punch card era.

I'd imgaine it was for compatibility...

All that existing source had page & line numbers...so RPG III allowed the
source to have the characters there.

Charles​
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