In <1319158632.66007.yahoomailmob...@web161421.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>, on
10/20/2011
at 05:57 PM, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> said:
>I have seen it used as far back as MFT sysgen and I wondered why IBM
>put it in.
What is "it"? Without an attribution line and enough quoted text to
provide context, the reader is left to guess. Even a bare In-Reply-To
header field would have been better than nothing.
Assuming that you are referring to BLKSIZE for utility files, I would
assume that IBM put it in either because they didn't have a DCBEXIT
routine to set a reasonable default for the block size or to force a
value suitable for small regions (partitions for MFT).
--
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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