> On Jan 17, 2018, at 6:55 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>>> 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))
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> /* = 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.
>
> Yes, it would, but how would you get 100% compliance wiht no mistakes from
> PROGRAMMERS?
>
> A 360 s'posedly COULD be told to ignore, or to respond to something else, but
> that wasn't usually available.
// DD DATA would ignore // in cols 1,2, but not /*. I found // DD
DATA,DLM='@@' -- not sure when that appeared. I don't remember it from my
OS/360 dabblings.
paul
