Tom Marchant wrote <begin extract> There might be cases where an 8 character symbol name won't work. For example, when a symbol represents a volume serial number used for indirect cataloging </end extract>
and here he seems to me to be confusing the length of a symbol's identifier with that of a symbol's value. &CHARVAL8, for example, can have a value less than eight characters in length, even a nul value; and conversely the [dubious] symbol &s can have a value more than one character in length. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
