Re: Full free form and /copy or /include -- RPG400-L

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"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 09/27/2019
02:39:55 PM:

Then I found that if I right-shifted all lines in the copy source 8 or

places the /copy worked fine. But I really want to extract odd pieces

from

programs and reuse as copy source without changing them.

Finally I found the working solution: Apparently I have to add a

“**FREE”

line as the first line to every copy source!

This works – BUT I sort of feel that if I have instructed the compiler

that

“the following source is free of column restrictions” this should apply

also

to every piece of code that is copied in before compile.

Is this a bug or a feature?

The compiler adds **NO-FREE at the beginning of included source
and **FREE at the end. So, the compiler is expecting that included source
is NOT in fully free format. This is a feature so that copybooks do not
have to be converted to fully free format and can be used in both non-free
and fully-free programs..

Sincerely,

Dave Clark

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