Tabs were a bloody nuisance long before 3270 displays came along; in fact, they may have been worse on hardcopy terminals than on 3270s.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 2:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: "make" question On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > On 12/14/2017 7:25 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote: > >> All the make tools share an annoying reliance on tab characters. > > > This is somehow more pernicious than punch-card-column dependencies in > traditional IBM tools? :) IMO, the use of tabs as a "data character" is only annoying to people stuck on a 3270 display. I have _no_ problems with them when I'm using ssh to get a UNIX shell. Boiled down, I will agree that using UNIX tools in a TSO (3270) environment is annoying. Equally annoying, to me, is the column dependencies when I editing an HLASM or COBOL program from the UNIX shell. And don't get me going on the "vi" that IBM distributes. > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > http://secure-web.cisco.com/1ybTM2fIPP6WIfaVgbAVnswUzPnLdlv3Q8suGEuvNuIcWmlO1FeCilZ_8AhBDR-gmcGDcWhBJEMVBPDjtPo47Ec46mMyk-AOKheGSj1zNZIOcc1PcpkdPbisMbUUwXdyxchTPLkS9938zz2xTA-atthJaQg8nrixGqy71j40crWiVHjKaJvcMhcM9azcZhOXm_krOIUa8sblenqgCAnmtqbNSt3SM6rhLSb33bqcKbth50bY0xFf6E4s7hYftAcX6Jn6IIYuYLjj2sxSYKJ4Lid-vuodLYc4D758luythtRxrb0-N0X5-cas0_7vXj6XnN4ZzfOH5RrAwzTh8V-zKkU5HwMD6yW_7sAusgAdvov4FtuFtqpTgxabUa3aMKgLc/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.well.com%2F%7Ejax > # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
