> Because it's easier to present to the Unix System Services environment > that way?
Maybe in some alternate universe. > Unix is stream oriented, not record oriented, Water is wet. How dos that justify treating instream datasets differently from other datasets. > There are shell features like "here documents" (google it) Your prejudices are showing. > which you've probably never used Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. > that would get broken if input to the USS ITYM Unix. > shell got arbitrarily broken into lines to suit the flavor of MVS/TSO/JES Then why are you defending that behavior? Or did you reply without reading what I wrote? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 11:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: USS: su: User ID "SH" does not exist On 5/15/20 8:51 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I understand why they parse pgm and sh differently. What I don't understand > is why instream data should be treated differently from other datasets. Because it's easier to present to the Unix System Services environment that way? Unix is stream oriented, not record oriented, and shell syntax is molded to that. There are shell features like "here documents" (google it) which you've probably never used that would get broken if input to the USS shell got arbitrarily broken into lines to suit the flavor of MVS/TSO/JES -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of http://secure-web.cisco.com/1uhIumqu4Yytww8FAYDeh9gdDCn3U1XjrWal1i4CefzYYQ6yHkXE0p1dGv3_UdhNktZACVhz65RyFEEifq64ghbny1-q7JnAYbZ_XpWr7xOAKJrCrIBPXq8ojpUZo-c3HxCICo2veAX67mZgXwULoqh9XcnG1m3F0SG5VzJnfbnDRT-A3OAsnbMt3igLX2nz7AuwnBn4pke6_jp9Z-c_CPrbtgsZcCltTBt50wB2hAYIv-mF1S6Sxn3uxMtxJipVzxKDhVopdg7gMO8OTwzPh5-IK-JH3YimgpRvOizHqNZymsd-uueahOCFAunZnNaweuvf0i1XmCsYuqRyNUu_B236wFh7anyxP9XsR_R7ygiIWNQpuavlwwKi-Qkh7qtjDlLLmKLyRLY5Jsa_NlgVPmFxLhC3q-DxXAuqGQi7O9eiwDjULtvjHHtQQev1DJ8Fs0I5KhSczrZxfVK8lswptyg/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.well.com%2F%7Ejax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe http://secure-web.cisco.com/1VAxnSGLYbYpB-pnDdw6DGBPH4t4tbuC975NIb6MA6-IAEEkCqn5moB2N0KLWJk0nhRwxswWOwPEdgwF3GWj_pGOQOPSUdG0h6aBstBrgbJrr7GBDTroY6vQuAu4Kzz9hHhEwTv9ox_TLNPWNRORyAzvJpD6WoYy-r4zDs6_mgDTFDThnvhPD6_iali8ar2MykNgrv7XdwfOrtKP0qLV_X3bi0W0JrdoM7q4tXvypcNyGlkBc3pswXtOlFdqDoQRZC7prw86pv0uHmuuKp0K0SKMS1js30AU-KiiixtXK0NUaWMYIAAuwdPzQs0ifYEXRggAU3zHvKVKokPW5KHAkNpI5dWDH5JoLxs4l5Y9yqjAbMGJuAYAV0dgN2uUUyn2g0AycjSSWgOlysmZNYdCT1_XSZXr9sK4f0dLTwOGzGpEtH63U2pICaSfN_iez_kb3/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
