On 7 March 2012 18:27, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Many long threads here on that one ... > > What's worse, "parm" means two different things. > > There is a limit of 100 characters on the operand of PARM=. > > But I was referring to "parameters" in the more general sense of, as the > manual says, "The parameter field consists of two types of parameters: > positional parameters and keyword parameters. All positional parameters must > precede all keyword parameters. Keyword parameters follow the positional > parameters."
Even worse, they probably should've been calling them arguments all these years... > Some of those "parms" such as PATH= can have operands with a length of 255 > characters. No, uh, argument. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
