In <listserv%200911021027099979.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 11/02/2009
at 10:27 AM, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> said:
>No. As I recall, Shmuel's original proposal was to provide a list
>somewhere, preferably in PARMLIB, of programs that could not handle the
>long parm.
More precisely, a list of maximum parm lengths, using wildcardsw to
provide defaults. I suspect that for IEB* and IEH* that a maximum of 256
would be safe. From a 1995 message that I had forgotten, IBM is more
likely to do the checking in the Interpreter than in the C/I.
--
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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