> ---------------------------<snip>----------------------------------- > If there's anybody out there old enough, they'll remember Assembler-G, > from University of Waterloo, with it's temporary update facility. > You supplied updates in IEBUPDTE format in a separate input file. > The Assembler would apply those updates to create a temporary file, > which was then assembled. IIRC, it was invoked by executing the UPASM > program, instead of ASMGASM. I used it extensively and it saved my > bacon more than once, when IEBUPDTE would have left me with a useless > source deck.
How is this superior to a library JCL proc that performs the updates to a temporary data set, then assembles from that? ISTR an assembler for 700/7000 series that routinely accepted a delta deck along with its primary input deck. --------------------------<unsnip>----------------------------------- Not necessarily superior, but an alternative. This was in my "salad days", when JCL was still quite new to me, compared to Assembler-language programming. I liked it because it was a single job step for both update and assemble. Rick --- [This E-mail has been scanned for viruses by the YourNet Connection Virus system] [For more information, please go to http://www.ync.net/YourMAIL] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
