On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Dougie Lawson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> :>And MVC INOUTBUF,=CL(L'INOUTBUF)='Test record' would have worked as >>> :>well. > Hey, that's a neat trick. I wish the folks who taught me assembler > back in 1981 had shown me that one. But for some odd reason they were > against using literals in ANY way shape or form. We were taught to > write all items in static storage with a label. Yes, very neat trick. It helps to avoid redundant constants in the code.Since I try such things immediately, I guess Martin does not use it as often as he should (the second "=" should not be there... ) Rob PS I recently used something like IC R0,=C'0123456789ABCDEF'(R1) and was pleased to see that it actually works...
