Thanks, John. It is so easy and facile to say "RTFM."
Yeah, sure, it's in the archives. So is everything else. When I lived in NYC in the sixties, I had a friend who had this idea of selling the police "a list of everyone in Manhattan who smoked dope." It was the Manhattan phone book. I have a program that will tell you anyone's RACF password. It's a random password generator. If you click it enough times it will generate the password you are looking for. RTFM is an appropriate response in many cases, but it is vastly overused as a smug put-down. If a friend asked you what time it was, would you tell him there was a clock in a room down the hall, or would you look at your wrist and tell him the damned time? I suspected someone would know the answer to my fairly simple question of the top of their heads, and I was right, Peter Relson did. If you don't have an easy answer off the top of your head, or you're too busy to respond, you are free to ignore a question. Put-downs are not necessary. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 7:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Who loaded me? Bill Fairchild is guilty of meiosis, the antonym of hyperbole. There is very much too much discussion of this topic in the archives. It is of course possible to get answers to carefully circumscribed special cases of this question of the sort Charles Mills is seeking. There are no general/generic answers to it, and the prospects for one are bleak. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
