When generating the program, PARADYME inserts a large number of comments. These comments are flanked either side by 'comment bars' which begin with an '*' and then followed by a number of hyphens.

As mentioned above, because of item size limits on some PICK systems, there may be times when the program generated will exceed the maximum item size limit of 32K. In such a case, an error message will be displayed telling the user that the maximum item size has been exceeded.

One way of reducing the program size is to reduce the INDENT SIZE. Another way is to reduce the number of hyphens in the 'comment bars'. The default number of hyphens is 71. The user can enter any value for this field between 0 and 99. The lower the number entered here, the smaller the generated program will be.