<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The CONTINUE convention, however, is different in providing a more general capability that could be used, for instance, within any other convention.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I don't think I emphasized this point enough. A continuation convention, whether the one on the table or any other, changes the meaning of other conventions. One could, for instance, recast a CHECKSUM keyword:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">CHECKSUM= 'nADTnADQnADQnADQ' / ASCII 1's complement checksum</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>as:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">CHECKSUM= 'nADTnADQ& ' / ASCII 1's complement checksum</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New">CONTINUE </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"> 'nADQnADQ'</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV>This would apply to your favorite string valued keyword as well. The example above would be a legal continuation but an illegal checksum value. (More than illegal for this example since the byte ordering needs to be preserved for the zeroing feature of the checksum to work.)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Perhaps we need a broader discussion of the boundaries of usage for conventions. I suspect the issue of long values for string keywords remains an issue for the trusty old standards process, not the avant garde registry. Continuation is only one possible way to handle long strings.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Rob</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>