On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 07:20:25 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >> >> CHARIN >> CHAROUT >> CHARS >> LINEIN >> LINEOUT >> LINES >> STREAM >> >> Use of these may make your code more portable. >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > >True. More portable to what other environment? Just curious. > Well, to begin with, VM/CMS (which wouldn't have the NL problem). Any Rexx implementation that follows MFC's specification. Most of these implement SIGNAL ON NOTREADY, z/OS being the conspicuous exception. (Many others implement the nonstandard EXECIO because it's conventional.)
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