RE: MESSAGE problem

From: Tom Linden (tom_at_kednos.com)
Date: 09/12/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:25:18 -0700

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>From: Larry Kilgallen [mailto:Kilgallen@SpamCop.net]
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>Subject: Re: MESSAGE problem
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>In article <4Uf8b.6443$YL.4016@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
>Edward Brocklesby <ejb@goth.net> writes:
>> Wayne Sewell wrote:
>>> You have to access the message code by value, not by reference.
>>
>> Thanks Wayne (and Keith Lewis who provided the PL/I equivalent)--this
>> appears to be the solution.
>>
>> Now, is this not documented in the MESSAGE manual, or did I simply miss
>> it? (The only example code I could see was FORTRAN, which I
>don't speak).
>
>I would expect to find it in the PL/I documentation, which I have not
>read in depth.

Why would you expect to find it there? It seems to me the interfaces to
MESSAGE should be provided by the MESSAGE documentation, which is clearly
deficient, which I can confirm after having perused the manual. Instead of
Fortran or Cobol example they should have provided a rigourous definition
of the interface with SDL.

It is not in the PL/I documentation.

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