Edward > > Only CANCEL is/can be independent of the program.
> Not so. In some cases CANCEL is rejected and only FORCE ARM is accepted. Selective quotation is always liable to misrepresentation. I guess every editor should have that written on parchment and framed on his/her desk! - just like a colleague many years ago who supported the systems with a "3" in their "name" had such a document saying "If it can't be done with RPG are you sure it's worth doing?" You may have assumed I was implying CANCEL would actually do what appeared to be written on the tin. That wasn't my intention. I was comparing CANCEL with particularly STOP of the MODIFY/STOP pair. > Obviously a program has to have logic to respond to MODIFY commands and, perhaps less obviously, to a STOP command. > Only CANCEL is/can be independent of the program. Incidentally the "can be" was to cover the possibility I imagine may exist for the program to intercept the CANCEL which - come to think of it - may give rise to the need for sterner "commands"! So doubly not so "not so"! Chris Mason On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:05:53 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/30/2010 12:14 PM, Chris Mason wrote: >> Only CANCEL is/can be independent of the program. > >Not so. In some cases CANCEL is rejected and only FORCE ARM is accepted. > ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
