My first post does not reflect disapproval of the JOBRC= facility as such. It has entirely legitimate uses. My intent was only to note that it will, inevitably, be misused and, inter alia, to express disapproval of the OP's notion of how to asolve his problem.
All useful facilities lend themselves to abuse; and they are, inevitably, abused; but the nanny languages like Pascal that attempt to prevent notional abuses are uniformly unsatisfactory. One of the artefacts of my new, all but uniformly better Google-based email support is that I am once again exposed to Mr MacNeil's jejune comments. I should wish not to see them, but all of the mechanism for excluding them that I have examined have disagreeable side effects that are disproportionate to the modest distress that they produce. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
