Hi All,

I have just accidently discovered a pecularity of the implied run command,
and was wondering if it is a 'documented'  feature or what, and if not, does
it still work on 6.x ?.

I am using 5.5 PP7, and it appears that  that any string in the implied run
parameter list which is enclosed in braces { .... } is taken as a comment  !!

This is neat, except that it only seems to work on the implied run command
but not with normal MPE commands or command files.

Can anyone shed some light on this ?

Regards,
Tad.

Eg.

:xeq editor.pub.sys {this is a comment}  "Text  DBCINB1S"  {and so is this}
HP32201A.09.00 EDIT/3000 WED, SEP  6, 2000,  6:17 PM
(C) HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. 1993
NOTE: FORMAT=COBOL VALUES SET FOR LENGTH,RIGHT,FROM,DELTA,FRONT
/e

Also (for sceptics),

$oldpass  {blah de} {blah de blah} ABCDEF {more stuff in braces}

'ABCDEF'

Where $oldpass is the following test program :-
  Identification division.
 Program-id.    TESTBRACE.
 Data division.
 working-storage section.
 01    CommandLineParms.
  03   runparm            binary  pic s9(4) value 0.
  03   infolen            binary  pic s9(4) value 255.
  03   infostr.
   05  filler pic x occurs 0 to 256 depending on infolen.
 Procedure division.
 main.
   call    intrinsic "GETINFO"
   using   infostr infolen runparm
   display "'" infostr  "'"
   continue.
 end-main.
   goback.
   END PROGRAM TESTBRACE.




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