Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kind of thought maybe that was the case!

Cheers
Vern

On 10/2/2019 4:03 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
> 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.