On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:33:50 -0500, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >Sometime in the past there was an option to use rep cards as input to >the linkage editor (now called Binder). The reports on here seem to >indicate that these rep cards are no longer valid . The rep cards as >you spoke are for amaspzap (like you said) . Two different IBM programs. > >There seems to be conjecture that it was an early OS (MVT/MVT) that >accommodated them. And in some past time was taken out of the OS. >... Going back farther, or at least lower in functionality, they were also accommodated by card loaders (for BPS utilities?). As I recall, the 3-card loader did not support them, but the 7- and 12-card loader did. Some utilities had parms set this way. I suspect they had a slightly different format. They probably did not need an ESDID field. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
