I was pleased by EJ's response. Moreover, it seems to me that ISVs, and thus Phoenix Software a fortiori, are "commercial" shops. It is not necessary to be a retrograde bank or insurance company to qualify as one.
I have often inveighed here against what I take to be reactionary, fatuous, risk-averse practices in 'old' mainframe shops; but it must be remembered that they were not always so; they were once staffed by sysprogs who wrote assembly language and exits with facility (and did not regard doing so as 'hard'). There are thus many such exits in place In these shops, and tape labels of the form <alphnabetics><numerics> are common in them. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 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
