On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 10:43:57 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
>
>> I am trying to include a large ammount of hex (and unexpected) data in the
>> program. each line is 80 bytes in length. As Rexx allowes a longer then 80
>> bytes line of code, there is no problem to put each line into a variable,
>> but I have about 800 lines to include... any idea how to make a block in
>> the program an accssible comment?
>>
I've done similar by calling a procedure such as:
HexDecode: procedure expose SIGL
do I = SIGL + 1 while sourceline( I )<>'*/'
... whatever
end I
return
>Like Walt, I'm confused by this. Are you wanting something like a UNIX
>shell's "here" document? ...
>
A woeful omission in the design of Rexx. Addressed in CMS Pipelines with
BEGOUTPUT. Even JCL has instream data sets.
-- gil
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