In message <87372ECCA42DD3118E3200508B2E1146C576C7@GGEXSF>, Tracy Pierce
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>so per Ken Hirsh's suggestion, I added ;SHARE to each of ADDXL and LINK for
>main & sub; voila it works...well, almost.  It works as long as the
>recursion depth is < 2, but at the point at which the subpgm calls itself,
>we die again when trying to write to the EXTERNAL file (FSERR 48 - file not
>opened for sequential writes).
>
>The practical solution seems to be write a separate subprogram to handle
>writing the output (Thanks, Roy Brown!), but of course I'm trying to avoid
>that; it seems that this EXTERNAL scheme SHOULD work.

<tongue-in-cheek>

Damn straight.

We're far too fond of sticking to the tried and trusted practical
solutions, and quietly and steadily developing software that works,
instead of haring off after sexy new technologies that ought to work but
don't quite, and which slice us on the bleeding edge. And where has that
got us? Right where we are today, with the HP3000 soon to be
discontinued.

Tracy is giving us here a wonderful example of the kind of thinking we
need to adopt (should indeed already have adopted) if we are going to
survive in the post-EOL world that awaits us....

</tongue-in-cheek>

:-)))))

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Roy Brown   Kelmscott Ltd

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