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Author Re: "Substantive Changes"
Robert

2007-10-10, 6:55 pm

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:23:49 GMT, "William M. Klein" <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:

>Try running your EXAMINE test with SETTINGS(COL3) specified and see whether OSVS
>is turned on. According to the MF LRM (NetExpress 5),
> A) EXAMINE is *not* indicated as an MF reserved word (any level of MF(n))
> B) EXAMINE statement has an OSVS bubble - but no other dialect specified.
>
>If you don't want to look at the settings in detail, try compiling with:
>
> NOOSVS NOVSC2 MF FLAG(MF) FLAGAS(S) WARNING(3)
>
>I haven't tried this on my machine (with my version of N/E) but given that
>EXAMINE is *not* listed as an MF reserved word, your results surprise me.


You are correct. Both examine and transform gave syntax errors with the above options.
OSVS made them both compile.

I'll follow up if I figure out why examine appeared to compile below.


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