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Re: Converting to free form

FWIW: I've done all my conversions (from RPG III to RPG IV and from RPG IV to RPG /FREE) using Linoma RPGTOOLBOX product and its predecessors. I think you will find it hard to beat and that anything that IBM provides "free" in WDSC will fall short. I also drop back occasionally to the green screen to re-indent /FREE code using the RPGTOOLBOX. 

IMHO, Linoma makes good products.
And the IBM WDSC team doesn't do a bad job either. Gotta have my WDSC, but I stll use the green screen as needed. 

Sam



From: "Bill Barnes" <bbarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries<wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Converting to free form
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:50:44 -0500

I have noticed a couple of gotchas when converting.  If there are any
characters in CC1-5 the conversion leaves them there and then the
compile complains and you have to go and manually remove the characters
in CC1-5.  We use RPGTOOLBOX extensively and one of the things we use it
for is to color source lines that have been commented out to red.  In
SEU this is extremely helpful when going through a listing you can never
mistake commented code for real stuff.  It is mostly those lines that
bite us.  Also if any programmer put initials in 1thru5 they bite also.
If the compiler doesn't like having anything in cc1-5 why does the
converter leave them there?


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