Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-30 Thread Greg Comeau
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roman V. Shaposhnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ron minnich wrote: more useless crap from memory: the actual correct usage is //GO.SYSIN DD * but of course the * would make things messy. See this and realize this stuff is still being taught!

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-29 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
ron minnich wrote: more useless crap from memory: the actual correct usage is //GO.SYSIN DD * but of course the * would make things messy. See this and realize this stuff is still being taught! http://www.coba.unt.edu/itds/courses/bcis3690/bcis3690.ht So... for the dense ones (like myself),

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-29 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
Charles Forsyth wrote: JCL == Java Control Language? the Job Control Language for System/360 Yeah, I kind of knew that ;-) I was trying to come up with the best joke I could. If this is not it, I have no clue what could be funny about JCL ;-) bundles are implemented by here

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-29 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
bundles are implemented by here documents, and the end marker for the document must not appear in the data vague recollection (1982), it was something like: //SYSIN DD * data records go here /*

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-29 Thread Brantley Coile
Now, if I can figure out how to do the over punch on this keyboard. :) Job control language was more like assembler with very, very simple operations. The problem was that a lot of verby things got put into the operands. DD means data definition. The first symbol, SYSIN in this case, is

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-28 Thread Greg Comeau
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sander van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the meaning/origin of //GO.SYSIN DD in bundle(1) is? I've seen this on other unix-likes as well, but I thought I'd ask here since the awareness of historical context seems to be quite a bit above average

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-28 Thread Sander van Dijk
Charles, Rob, Greg, Thanks for the context. Greetings, Sander.

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-28 Thread ron minnich
more useless crap from memory: the actual correct usage is //GO.SYSIN DD * but of course the * would make things messy. See this and realize this stuff is still being taught! http://www.coba.unt.edu/itds/courses/bcis3690/bcis3690.htm ron

[9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-26 Thread Sander van Dijk
Hi 9fans, Does anyone know what the meaning/origin of //GO.SYSIN DD in bundle(1) is? I've seen this on other unix-likes as well, but I thought I'd ask here since the awareness of historical context seems to be quite a bit above average on this list. Thanks, Sander.

Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

2008-07-26 Thread Rob Pike
I first saw it used in bundling software created by James Gosling, and liked the (relevant, I might add) joke so much I put it in the Plan 9 version. -rob