On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:43:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tony Harminc >Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:30 AM > >On 27 October 2016 at 12:56, Itschak Mugzach wrote: >> What I am trying to reference a comment block in a rexx program. The >> SOURCELLNIE() function does work, including if program is compiled. >> Still have a problem with some odd number of '/*' or '*/' that may be >> included in the text, but I can manage that by replacing it the >> another pair of characters. > I consider it highly unlikely that those character sequences would occur in hex data strings.
>You might do better to safely encode the binary (hex) data using something >like BASE64. This is easy, though it does enlarge the data by a factor of >1.3... > Long ago, as an experiment, I wrote a batch job with a sysin containing a uuencoded tar archived maclib. It decoded; extracted; and ran an assembly using that maclib as SYSLIB. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
