On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:29 PM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com > wrote:
> <...snip...>IMO. I.e. a BASH UNIX prompt beats the crap out of line mode > TSO.<...snip...> > Jeepers John, I gotta disagree with you on that one. How is '#' as a prompt any better than 'READY'? As far as messages, there is no way IMHO that a non-numbered set of UNIX or LINUX messages is superior to ANY numbered IBM messages for ease of understanding. Google lets you look up those unnumbered messages on the Internet and try to find some meaning, but without Google non-numbered messages are an abomination. My biggest pet peeve is the explanation that certain unnumbered messages are 'self explanatory'. What a crock... IBM was very smart to assign messages alphanumeric prefixes and to collect them in reference manuals for users to read and understand. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.
