Re: [EXTERNAL] Is **FREE even needed?

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Unless I am mis-understanding it is not 100% Free.

Without the **FREE, you must start code at 8 and continue to a max of
position 80.

With **FREE you can start in column 1 and write code for the length of the
record.

We use 132 length records which means we can write code from column 1 to
column 120 using **FREE.

Without it, I can only write from column 8 to column 80.

Am I incorrect on this?

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:20 AM Alan Shore via RPG400-L <
rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Nathan
> That was a recent change
> Forget which release that was on
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Is **FREE even needed?
>
> I was under the impression that it was necessary to begin fully-free RPG
> with **free in column 1 of line 1. But fully-free sample code in file
> QOAR/SAMPLE provided by IBM just begins on line 1 column 8. It compiles
> fine. It appears that **free is not really necessary. How about that?
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