On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:43:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Harminc
>Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 10:30 AM
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>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

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