Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I misunderstood.  I thought he was starting from 100% fixed-form

On 10/2/2019 3:51 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> Booth
>
> You cannot go to full-free in a piecemeal fashion - that code in line 
> 1 position 1 means the entire source starts in position 1 and is 
> free-form from 1 to whatever the record length is.
>
> Without the str-start-free at the start, your code is limited to 
> position 8-80 or so.
>
> You will not be able to start calculations in position 1 unless you 
> use the star-star-free marker.
>
> Regards
> Vern
>
> On 10/2/2019 1:57 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> > My first reaction is: Why jump off the end of the pier; no need to go 
> > to full-free cold turkey?  Take your time, just do the C-spec free to 
> > start with?  Maybe convert an existing program with RDi's conversion 
> > tool and see how it treats your current documentation process?  I 
> > suspect you will be pleasantly surprised.