The notion that "customers" cannot reasonably be deprived of literals suggests that what is in question is some fill-in-the-blanks situation. Such problems can be dealt with under the hood (bonnet), whether they be screen-input or macro keyword-parameter ones: query and note assembled lengths that are not multiples of two bytes and provide a properly placed, immediately following literal pool entry that makes up the difference. (Avoid reuse of the same one-byte literal: literal pools are purged.)
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
