On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:23:29 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> 
wrote:

>The only enhancement that I, personally, would like would be for "free
>format" input into HLASM with _no_ line limits. Mainly because I keep
>my HLASM source in a UNIX file and, depending on "things", I use the
>"as" UNIX command to assemble it. I'm a bit of a UNIX partisan for
>"interactives". Being forced to use column alignment when I use a
>non-ISPF editor is a royal bother. Hum, it would also be nice if the
>tab character were a white space character outside of literals.

It wouldn't help for macros, but for your main program couldn't you write a 
small filter program that would take free-form assembler statements and produce 
a fixed-format output file. You could then pipe the reformatted file into 
whatever requires it.

-- 
Walt

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