> Freedom of speech and all that? > Perhaps all COBOL questions can stay in a single thread too?
Common sense and all that? On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:19:27 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: >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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> 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 >-- >Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

