It wasn't ignorance of the original thread. Freedom of speech and all that?
Raising the cover is an interesting feature, not a joke... Perhaps all COBOL questions can stay in a single thread too? On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Chris Mason <chrisma...@belgacom.net> wrote: > John > >> Plus you could raise the print cover and sound alarms with machine chars > > The fact that Wayne Bickerdike managed to repeat my joke about the printer > cover - in possible ignorance of the parent thread - reminded me to mention > how to overcome the disaster of having deleted a post form your in-box when > you suddenly become inspired to post a reply. > > Following the "trailer" kindly provided by the lists system, it is possible > to call > up the archives and create a properly integrated in-thread post - with the > correct Subject text. > > Chris Mason > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:49:38 -0600, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> > wrote: > >>Sorry, but I deleted the original question. But this web page seems to >>address the problem: >> >>http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21240217 >> >>It says that you must use __only__ AFTER ADVANCING. You cannot use >>BEFORE ADVANCING. And you cannot leave off the AFTER ADVANCING either. >>That phrase must be on at least one WRITE statement for the file. >> >>-- >>John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
