Excerpted from message dated 06-09-96, David Noon to Murray Lesser:

DN>I vaguely remember seeing a preprocessor macro a few months back that
  >purported to be a REXX-like PARSE statement for PL/I. I think it was
  >written by one of the German PL/I boffins (Eberhard Sturm perhaps?)
  >and was published in 'The PL/I Connection' newsletter.

Hi DAve--

    I thought that the old issues of the PL/I Connection in INF form
were on some CD-ROM I have, most likely DevCon, but I couldn't find
them.  However, I did find the reference to the macro, in Issue #1
(December 1994) hardcopy!  (I started from the most recent issue,
naturally!  We need a cumulative index.)  It was in an article by Dave
Jones; the only attribute for Mr. Jones is that he is a "Team PL/I
Member."  The macro was, indeed, written by Eberhard Sturm, is said to
contain 320 lines of preprocessor source code, and is (was) available
from David Jones at usqwvhwvh{at}ibmmail.com.  I shall drop him an e-mail
note and see if anything happens other than a bounceback for improper
address.

    If this doesn't work, I'll try Carolyn.

    Regards,

          --Murray

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