Art, those are very good points. Wish I'd thought of them a few years ago.
StarTool and PDS are both written in Assembler; I've been acquainted
with Bruce Leland, the original author, for about 25 years.
Rick
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In other words, you have a technique which has been working, and has
been tested over time. It costs nothing.
Instead, your management wants you to come up with something new, that
will cost, at minimum, many man-hours to find, write, debug, test, and
get moved into production. It's quite possible that the solution you
come up with (e.g. Startools or its free cousin, the PDS command from
the CBT tape) is also written in assembler.
You might start by asking your management why they want to waste money
or man-hours in a tight economy. You might also tell them that you're
*not* using assembler; you're using an executable program that's very
little different from any other executable except that it does just what
you want it to do.
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