Re: Vendor call returns up to 200 varying parms back, looking for easy way to scan it all.

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's almost NO reason to continue this - we all know that it's 
completely foolish on the green - even with 132-wide. Hey, there the 
command entry is still only 80 - sheesh.

Now one could go to RDi, put some text into a CL program, and scroll to 
your heart's delight!

I won't do that - this game is a no-winner all around!

Vern

On 7/2/2014 4:21 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> Re: CALL QCMD, then F11
>
> Perhaps people didn't get what I meant by "in 80-column mode, the
> whole screen doesn't have enough room".
>
> If we have a 999-character variable-length parameter, then as Scott
> said, that's 1998 hex characters, just for the data alone, never mind
> the leading 'x' or surrounding single-quotes, or 2-byte length
> specifier.
>
> An 80-column screen has 24 lines.  That's 80 * 24 = 1920 total cells
> for the entire drawable portion of the display.  If you could somehow
> write to the status row, you'd have a nice, round 2000 cells, which
> still isn't enough to enclose your parameter properly.
>
> The only chance is if the input area is scrollable, but I'm trying it
> right now, and it's not moving.
>
> John Y.