Re: how to return? Let's see how good you are.

2020-08-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
I am *not* asking for assistance. The code that was presented has been running for almost 15 years at many customer sites. It will *not* be changed because of this discussion. This is purely a learning exercise. Almost everyone said "I would not do that", but I don't think anybody had a real

Re: how to return? Let's see how good you are.

2020-08-14 Thread Seymour J Metz
IMHO, asking for assistance would get better results then issuing a challenge. But it's not my dog. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List on behalf of Tony Thigpen Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020

Re: how to return? Let's see how good you are.

2020-08-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
I have been reading all the "that is not a good way to do it" posts, so here it the challenge to all those nay-sayers. It's time to 'put-up' or 'shut-up'. Under the following conditions, just how would you code it? Rules: 1) You are coding the entry and exit for a called subroutine. For this

Re: how to return?

2020-08-14 Thread Seymour J Metz
Simpler is safer. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List on behalf of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 1:57 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: how to return? I came across

Re: how to return?

2020-08-14 Thread Seymour J Metz
There's clever and there's 'clever'. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 <0dc9d8785c29-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 2:33 PM

Re: PC Backup best practices

2020-08-14 Thread Seymour J Metz
When it comes to backup, paranoid is good. And, yes, the finger fumble is one of the natural disasters I want to protect myself against, and I have, in fact, resorted to backup copies after a bad edit. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Marist Link for John Ehrman's Book

2020-08-14 Thread David Woolbright
The link seems to be working now.

Re: John Ehrman Assembler Text

2020-08-14 Thread John Pratt
Hi Tony, There is a copy on CBT site ... http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/asmbook/alnv200.pdf John Pratt mailto:rjohnpr...@gmail.com Tony Thigpen Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List 14/08/2020 06:59 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Assembler List To ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU cc