In a message dated 5/11/2007 10:24:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >No, I think it was because a DASD label could be UPDATED IN PLACE, as opposed to CREATED. You either create a volume label on the label track when there is no label record there in the first place, or else there is one already on the track and you change its contents. You used IEHDASDR way back then (I think) to create one, and CLIP to change one that already existed. You could also use IEHDASDR to change the volume serial in place (if it already existed on the label track), but then you could call the process "recreate label in place" or "change label in place". IEHDASDR probably did not care about the pre-existence of a volume label. The CLIP software would not create one if one was not already there. Since most shops had many mountable DASD drives, CLIPping was done often. Today we use ICKDSF, which will create a volume label or verify the previous existence and contents of one and then change its contents. I think the only way to know exactly for what CLIP was the acronym is to ask the original author, whose identity I don't know. Reminds me of the de-acronyming of another useful utility from those days known as DEBE. My memory is that it stood for "Does Everything But Eat", indicating its extreme usefulness. Then there was DITTO - DOS Inter-file something-or-other Transfer Operations (I think).
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