In <1311041408.15160.3.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net>, on 07/18/2011
   at 09:10 PM, John McKown <joa...@swbell.net> said:

>PDS is a weird beastie. IMO, the closest analogy would be a directory
>with very restricted file names.

Various other operating systems, e.g., EXEC 8, have equivalents. What
distinguishes a PDS is that it is directly supported by an access
method.
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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