Re: Would anybody know of a way, from a CL program, . . .

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Bale wrote:
 
> A serious question:  Now that you have done it, would you say that you would
> have been better off just writing the RPG program?

Not at all. Writing an RPG program with a display file, or a C program
with simple "printf" statements, would have at best been only slightly
faster, and might indeed have taken longer. Writing an RPG program with
a *PNLGRP, or a C program with either a DSPF or a *PNLGRP would have
almost certainly taken quite a bit longer.

Besides which, 
(1) I now have a sample *PNLGRP application that I can use as a skeleton
for future projects,
(2) I've learned how to use a tool that's powerful enough that IBM
generally uses it in preference to DSPFs, and
(3) Having added a *PNLGRP to the product in question, I had a place
where I could hang command prompt help for the product's *CMDs (a
trivial exercise, but a relaxing one).

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