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  • Your System/36 Information is Very Helpful

    December 18, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Hey, Ted:

    I don’t know how many questions on S/36-related topics you receive each month, but think I have a good idea.

    Have you ever considered publishing an S/36 or RPG II “Friday update” column, or reserve the middle of each month for RPG II and System/36 questions and answers? Maybe you could poll the audience.

    — Doug

    That is something to consider, Doug.

    Well, readers. Do you want more S/36 information? Please let me know at tholt@itjungle.com. Place either S36YES or S36NO in the subject line so my email program will direct your votes to specified folders. That will

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  • Debugging Java Script

    December 18, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Hey, David:

    I was playing around with JavaScript after reading your article, “Protecting HTML Page Elements with JavaScript and CSS.” Using your code as a base, I changed one of my pages to do something similar and managed to key the function name incorrectly in the onchange attribute. I spent quite a while looking for the error and didn’t find it until I went to advanced options in Internet Explorer and checked the Display a notification about every script error checkbox.

    If I should ever repeat that mistake, how would I locate JavaScript errors?

    While testing, I also

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  • Make Qshell Clean Up After Itself

    December 18, 2002 Timothy Prickett Morgan

     

     

    Hey, Ted:

    I’ve written a Qshell script that creates some work files that are needed only for the duration of the script. I want the script to delete them before it ends. Here’s the problem: There are several places where the script can end normally and plenty of places where execution of the script could end abnormally. In CL, I’d use a goto command to branch to an end-of-job routine, where I could put commands to clean up, but Qshell does not have a goto command.

    I never thought I’d wish for a goto command, but I do. …

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