On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:31:31 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>... >>(I could ask for the umpteenth time why there is no QPAM, but >>I won't.) >> >If you had asked (which you didn't) someone might have answered >that it's because the definition of the NOTE word has no >provision for specifying the offset of the current record >within a block. But that merely regresses the question (which >you didn't ask) one level. >... Ok. I'll buy that. But NOTE didn't return anything at all until they wrote it. So I'll regress: These smart people could also have written NOTEX or QNOTE that returned all that was required to do queued processing of the member. There must have been some reason they did not. I hope. What was that reason? Anybody know? (Idle curiosity.) Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
