Re: **free optional??

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

**FREE means you can start using column 1 and use out to length of record
for source instead of column 80.

If you tired to put something into columns 1 to 7 and expected it to
compile without the **FREE it would fail.

You can still start at column 7 even with **FREE. or use a comment in
column 6.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Quite regularly, I FTP my source files to my PC.
>
> Today, I needed to recreate a program from a copy of the source I had
> saved to my PC in September 2016.  It is in all free (dcl-...) but I
> noticed there was no **free as the first statement and it had comments
> starting in column 6 prefixed as **.   I sure don't recall doing that but,
> to my surprise, it compiled fine.
>
> I thought **free was required and you had to use // style commenting.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
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