On 01/17/2018 01:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >> We might as well all contribute. >> Back in college in 1969 > > I used to have a tiny portable manual card punch. > An acquaintance used it to punch /* in the first two columns of his > punchcard based utility bills. (those characters have special meaning > to 360 JCL. They have multiple punches per column, so it required > making a punch, then backspacing to make the other punch(es))
/* = end of data set /& = end of job One wonders how a S/360 "C" compiler might deal with this. Preceding it with a space might do the trick. --Chuck
