VARCHAR in a subfile

[Pickering, John (NORBORD)]

Leonard

When I left planet Cobol and journeyed to the then new and exciting world of
PowerHouse, one of the things that I most definitely did not miss at all was
"character varying" data types. It was sort a relief to be able to dismiss
any suggestion of their use with the offhand remark "PowerHouse doesn't do
variable length stuff", which, while not strictly true, got the offending
subject off the discussion list. I can understand their inclusion in
dictionary definitions in order to be able to read and write from files and
tables which just have to have them but I considered them a "legacy" thing
when PowerHouse was new and therefore even more of an anachronism now. 

Tell me again how much that 72 gig disc drive costs :-)

Regards,
JWP

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org
[mailto:Leonard_Berkowitz@harvardpilgrim.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 1:16 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: VARCHAR in a subfile

MPE/iX PowerHouse 8.19C

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