In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/15/2006
   at 07:21 PM, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Why so?

Because the sentence as written is meaningless.

>The sentence references commands, subcommands and statements but NOT
>records.

Which is why it doesn't actually say anything.

>As stated it is correct.

As stated it is a tautology. It doesn't actually impose a limitation.

>What it is saying is that you cannot have
>multiple commands / subcommands on a given statement.

Which is automatically true by definition.

>For example:
>  SUB; END
>...is forbidden in batch TMP. 

It is not forbidden by the text that you quoted. It is two statements,
"SUB" and "END", each of which occurs at the beginning of itself.

>As for the use of concatenation

I'm not the one that claimed that the TMP supported concatenation in
SYSTSIN.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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