In article <1995Nov5.184707@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (R.E.
 Williams, Jr.) writes:
> In article <1995Nov5.183814@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Kent
 Covert) writes:
>> Actually, there are several.  The blank lines are what are causing the
>> problem.  DCL is fairly forgiving many times.  It lets you leave out
>> the $ at the beginning of lines sometimes and lets you have blank lines in
>> your program...sometimes.  This is one of those times, though, when you
>> can't have blank lines.  The blank line is confusing the SET TERMINAL
>> command.
>
> Well, there goes one of the most useful things for making code readable....
> Oh well; it doesn't seem to mind the rest, so I'll leave 'em in. I guess I
> could use comments....
 
That's generally what I do.  Instead of a blank line, I just use:
 
    $!
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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