I made the same mistake you did; parse external reads from the terminal, not frohm the external data queue. The concept of end-of-file is inapplicable for terminal input, although both TSO and *ix have kludges for files mapped to the terminal.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Bridges <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 1:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Scripting REXX thought -- inspiration or insanity? Gil, you're probably going to say "yeah, that's not what I meant", but it sort of does. I mean, that's what the queued() function call will tell you, no? --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March 16, 2020 12:31 Why does the Rexx standard not provide a means for PARSE EXTERNAL to report end of input (e.g. SYSTSIN)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
