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To: NCjim
Old programmers never die, they just branch to a new address.

Would that be a BALR? (OK, so that was OS360 JCL, but what the heck...)

Mark

99 posted on 03/15/2008 12:09:14 AM PDT by MarkL
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To: MarkL
BALR would assume that you'd be returning via the linkage register... :-)

I was thinking in terms of BC 15,new_address

100 posted on 03/15/2008 12:22:58 PM PDT by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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