In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 05/23/2005
at 12:57 PM, Peter Hunkeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>How about the code sniplet below? Sure it would be better to also
>verify the upper bound, i.e. 100 bytes, but is it really necessary,
>especially if the program was written when batch was the way to run
>programs?
Yes, because all the way back to the early days of OS/360, a main
program was just another subroutine with a specific type of PLIST. I
know of no IBM documentation that ever suggested a limit of 100
characters for the program. If a batch program calls a second program,
that second program is still running batch.
>The program was defined to run in batch.
And when a program running in batch calls it, then it *is* running in
batch, even if the parm string is longer than 100 characters.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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