Let's get the timeline right 1966 MFT 1967 CP/CMS (IBM internal) 1969 Unix 1972 VM/379 (public release of CP/CMS) 1972 OS/VS1 1972 OS/VS2R1 - SVS 1974 OS/VS2R2 - MVS
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258-8487 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 11:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, McKown, John <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote: > I think IBM would do well to adopt yet another UNIX concept: The "escape". > The ; would be a logical line end. Like NL in UNIX. But you can put a reverse > solidus (backslash \) in front of it to escape it. > ex '\;' would make ; a literal. That does require ex '\\' to exclude the \ > itself. But you could then ex '\'' to exclude a ' as well. Ahem, that was a VM concept long before UNIX even existed. Double quote is the default escape character in VM, has been since 1967. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
