I'm pretty sure everyone is talking about the named common "name" not the variable names (i.e. the name between the slashes in "COMMON /ABC$123/ LONG.VARIABLE.NAME1, ETC"
The variables names defined within your common block should be able to be any length you like (perhaps restricted to 32 characters). ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bill Haskett Sent: Tue 27/12/2005 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] UD: Named common Dave: The reason I suspected a joke was because most of us have never lived with restricted variable name lengths and no longer live with 8.3 DOS file names, except of course rundll32.exe, svchost.exe, etc. :-) A real pain when the application is used on various mvDbms environments. Thanks very much for your comments though. Bill DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
