Re: in Defense of FTP. FUD rules

To Tom and others: The  SSH mean "Secure SHell". The non-secure service is 'rsh" IMHO https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/Secure-Shell seems to be a pretty good summary (after30 seconds of scrolling) -- For

Re: World’s largest computer outing!

Hi, This morning (or night if you want), access to IBM documentation had "error 503" for many pages. (Almost needless to say that that the "report issue" button didn't work anyway). 99.99% uptime?  99 Luftballons;.? Peter On 19/07/2024 15:37, Dave Beagle wrote: Microsoft via a Crowdstrike s

Re: C interface to MVS

On 10/07/2024 13:03, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Hi, nice to hear, Peter ... how's the weather in Southern France? As you know there is a "NICE" city nearby.  ;-) We wrote a C program to do the trigraph modification ... portable of course, so that it could run on the mainframe, after the upload of

Re: C interface to MVS

hey implemented strcmp using CLC. Could you get a 0C4 if a short string near the end of page compared to a larger constant? Well, unlikely, no answer, no way to know whether there were guard pages. No problem in real life anyway.

Re: TSO PARMLIB command - Abend S047

tsoxx which also happen during IPL ;-) Best Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: FORTRAN G/H sources

hi looks *very promising* thx Tony. A golden needle in a haystack :- Peter On 03/04/2024 20:22, Tony Harminc wrote: The file at https://www.cbttape.org/ftp/OS360/OS360RICK1.zip contains at least some FORTRAN source code. Tony H. On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 at 13:03, Peter Sylvester < 06091b418

Re: FORTRAN G/H sources

On 03/04/2024 18:28, Peter Sylvester wrote: Hi, is there someone who has kept fortran source from the MVT and MVS3 century, at least the IO modules that have been used (and distributed) for SNOBOL4 by University of Arizona ? TIA I reply to myself! No, the SYSCPK seems only to contain load

FORTRAN G/H sources

Hi, is there someone who has kept fortran source from the MVT and MVS3 century, at least the IO modules that have been used (and distributed) for SNOBOL4 by University of Arizona ? TIA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: Question

Yes,  from the IBM pax installation. And a bit of pipifax. :-) Python 3.12.0 (heads/pyz_dev-3.12:ef647e3673, Oct 31 2023, 19:02:59) [Clang 14.0.0 (build 1465bdb)] on zos On 06/02/2024 19:47, Ed Jaffe wrote: Yes. : >python Python 3.11.4 (heads/pyz_dev-3.11.ziip:39640ccf4b, Jul 15 2023, 05:46:1

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

Hi, there is another possibilty for a delay in TLS session setup: When you connect in clear to a TN3270 server and then have told your client to use STARTTLS. This may be a fast initial solution in case when your firewall cerberos :-) cannot rapidly a new port, i.e. 992. Best /PS -

Re: RFC3280 (and 5280), "Basic Constraints" set to Critical

be able to use X509 version 1 cert as a container for the root pubkey. On 10/12/2023 04:17, Phil Smith III wrote: Peter Sylvester wrote, in part: T what is suggesting this? If by "this" you mean "what is suggesting 'But this doesn't seem to be true until we add t

Re: RFC3280 (and 5280), "Basic Constraints" set to Critical

On 08/12/2023 17:36, Phil Smith III wrote: (Cross-posted to IBM-MAIN and IBMTCP-L) Our z/OS product acts as a client to our non-z/OS server. As such, it makes TLS connections to fetch Policy and keys. As I've written previously, we had a problem when we added TLSv1.3 support to the z/OS produ

python 3.12

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Python 3.12 on zOS

Hello, am I the only one who has downloaded the pax edition HAMB3C0 supposed to be python 3.12, but it contains 3.11? best Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

LexisNexis

Uk is not US. On 06/09/2023 15:15, Bill Johnson wrote: Lol, it pays to do thorough research. 1818 it began. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-information-management/article/lexisnexis-the-future-of-law-since-1818/08BFF6F4025EB3800E2E44681CA6025C Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Re: Is the IBM Assembler List still alive

x27;t hurt for the IBM tech writers to keep it in mind when documenting parameters. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Peter Sylvester Sent: Monday, September 4, 2023 10:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is the IBM Assembler

Re: Is the IBM Assembler List still alive

t; = "what is your profession." Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Firefox and HMC self-signed cert

Hi, I do not really know what I am trying to explain, but anyway. Ibm has made a kind of minimal security approach to access an HMCusing https, i.e. a self signed cert. Ibm also documents how one can change this,i.e. generate a key pair,, a csr, get certified by "some" CA, then upload the key

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: Retrieving Certificate details from a server

Hi, curl --verbose https:// may be sufficient Peter On 27/08/2023 09:43, Colin Paice wrote: See Collecting a tcpip packet trace on z/OS. and how to export it to a wireshark format - which you can then use wireshar

Re: Certificate labels

requested by the server, any of them can be sent. Does the server perform any kind of authorisation check on the identity of the client? Best Peter Sylvester On 15/08/2023 20:13, Phil Smith III wrote: Thanks to an off-list suggestion from Charles that I run a gsktrace, I've now proven to my

Re: MVS/S* dates?

://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS Does anyone knowwhen the CVT prefix started having  SPx.y.z and FMID in the prefix? Most likely with SP 1.1? Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Rexx Exec to Build 10,000 PDS Members: ALLOC vs ISPF Services vs ?

hi, Since about half a century the 10 line Speedy implentation of snobol can do this (changing recfm is automatic). The SPITBOL LOADMODS can be found here https://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/compilers/spitbol370.htm CBTTAPE inclusion is under construction. Best Peter Instead of 'O = R' one ca

Re: Rexx Exec to Build 10,000 PDS Members: ALLOC vs ISPF Services vs ?

Hi David, would you mind to explain a bit the input data? A single source that hassome separator to indicate a new member or so (similar to iebupdte input)? Or aset of PDSes? Or?? TIA Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signof

Re: JCL EXEC PARM= default?

From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sylvester Sent: Wednesday, April 5, 2023 10:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JCL EXEC PARM= default? [EXTERNAL EMAIL] test 'sys1.linklib(iefbr14)' TEST l 1R 1R 0002AF60 TEST l 1r% 0002AF60. 8002AF64 TEST l 1r%

Re: JCL EXEC PARM= default?

test 'sys1.linklib(iefbr14)' TEST l 1R  1R  0002AF60 TEST l 1r% 0002AF60.  8002AF64 TEST l 1r%% 0002AF64.  TEST On 05/04/2023 18:07, Seymour J Metz wrote: DCH'0' From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Gibney, Dave <

Re: PL/I Opt. Compiler V2 manuals?

 Seymour J Metz and others wrote: Yes, but why doesn't it go into a save dialog instead of rendering it inappropriately? because IBM tells that the mime-type is text/plain   they most likely don't have boo in their mime "dictionary" curl should be your friend. With a .boo ending, you

golang 1.19

Hi, am I the only one one getting the following error when trying to download the z/os golang 1.19 pax version? This file is not approved for download. Please contact your program administrator for more details. best PS --

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

On 26/12/2022 20:52, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:52:16 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: ... This morning I emailed the Word document to myself and tried saving it as PDF. Turns out Word is awful at that too. It skipped over most of the ToC and jumped from there straight to the be

Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word

On 26/12/2022 17:54, Charles Mills wrote: I have avoided replying on this thread. It is not my job to shill for Microsoft on a mainframe forum. However, just to get the facts on the record, let me say that I have been composing very complex manuals with included text and generated TODs and in

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

On 20/11/2022 23:46, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 19/11/2022 8:19 pm, Peter Sylvester wrote: It seems to me that this code currently poses a security risk. Certificate validation always say OK. (well it is said like this in the code.) Which terminal emulators actually validate the certificate

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

Hi, It seems to me that this code currently poses a security risk. Certificate validation always say OK. (well it is said like this in the code.) But this  well merits fixing? Another hi Hint: A default should be different, and ignoring host verification should come with many warnings. :-)

Re: ICHEINTY - RACF interface

On 05/10/2022 19:12, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: I used to have a manual from the 1980s explaining how to use ICHEINTY. I can no longer find it. It pre-dates the use of RACROUTE I believe. If my memory serves me well it was written by Eldon Worley, who wrote the original RACF. Lennie ZZ10-9

Re: Assembler courses

Hi, At least since 50 years it is understood that structured programming does'nt mean goto less. D. Knuth's response to Dijkstra explains other things:     All the examples are about 15 lines. Knuth shows different versions of the same algo.     As long as you have 15 lines, you can find und

Re: Assembler courses

On 26/09/2022 22:40, Seymour J Metz wrote: a && b isif a THEN b else TRUE ? Shirley a && b isif a THEN b else FALSE Short circuit operators can be very nice. Ouups; yes.   thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: Assembler courses

Hi, I have the feeling that the author of https://github.com/eclipse-openj9/openj9/blob/master/runtime/vm/classsupport.c. might not know/like/understand the && operator. The huge case testing length and values can be contracted into a single if. using     (len = 3 && memcmp(v,"ddd",3)    Ah

Re: Assembler courses

On 25/09/2022 05:02, David Crayford wrote: There's some interesting videos here. All entertaining in their own way. It's like any dogma, if you want to believe then you will. If you have spent your entire career using structured programming you probably think "hell yeah"! Is such a person the

Re: Assembler courses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFv8Wm2HdNM All software should be done top down except for the first time Before writing reusable functions/classes/... write usable ones. :-) On 24/09/2022 19:57, Tom Brennan wrote: Since we're drifting, I'm remembering another method I think they called St

Re: Assembler courses

Hi, 49 years ago I 'stumbled' over Simula 67 (see video 1), well, at the university "informatik 1" course. I had gotten an Algol60 book given to me by my math teacher 2 years earlier. The student a year older learned PL/1. WE had an /168 and the Simula 67 system from the NCC (you can find it on

Re: Output redirection

A batch job might be your friend? starting with something like // EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*,HOLD=YES //SYSTSIN DD * RLIST UNIXMAP * ALL On 17/09/2022 16:48, Phil Smith III wrote: I had cause to use RLIST UNIXMAP * ALL, but the output was voluminous. "No problem", thinks I, "I'l

Re: omvs man pages

I "like" this one: https://www.ibm.com/docs/pt-br/zos/2.3.0?topic=messages-fsumf061 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: omvs man pages

Yes, the rocket anaconda stuff has man files that you can add to MANPATH. in OMVS /etc/profile # == #MANPATH environment variable # # Specifies the list of dire

Re: omvs man pages

On 15/09/2022 21:18, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:56:38 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: This explains how to enable the man pages in omvs https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=utilities-enabling-man-pages A more recent edition:

Re: Why is my second Rexx SYSCALLS read failing?

On 11/09/2022 02:29, Charles Mills wrote: In the absence of PROCEDURE, all variables are exposed. Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the messa

Re: Why is my second Rexx SYSCALLS read failing?

A late night guess: FileOpen: PROCEDURE EXPOSE FileFd https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=variables-exposing-procedure-expose -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lis

Re: Location of IBM python SDK language and standard library documentation?

Hi, What about: https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html A quick idea: https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_file_open.asp Or this. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/read-a-file-line-by-line-in-python/ Best Peter Sylvester On 31/07/2022 20:29, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Thanks Colin

Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

Hi, On 30/06/2022 06:28, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:22:10 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: ... "99 Bottles of Beer" is more concise in C++ than in Python, and MUCH more concise in BASIC. Does that make BASIC a better language? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Bee

Re: Some UNIX file usage questions

On 21/06/2022 20:24, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:55:01 +0200, Peter Sylvester wrote: On 21/06/2022 17:47, Mike Schwab wrote: 24 byte blocks get 82 blocks per track. (96 blocks * 31 days) / 82 blocks = 37 tracks per month. Inefficient but a very small utilization. Copy to

Re: Some UNIX file usage questions

On 21/06/2022 17:47, Mike Schwab wrote: 24 byte blocks get 82 blocks per track. (96 blocks * 31 days) / 82 blocks = 37 tracks per month. Inefficient but a very small utilization. Copy to historical dataset to reblock. Indeed. How much data is this compared to all copies of all messages in t

Re: Some UNIX file usage questions

logic to rename files. Best with open('file_path', 'w') as file:     file.write('hello world !') On 20/06/2022 1:47 pm, Peter Sylvester wrote: Hi, I remember I did that 25 years ago something like (was actually in perl on windows):   open(path/prefix-cu

Re: Some UNIX file usage questions

Hi, I remember I did that 25 years ago something like (was actually in perl on windows):   open(path/prefix-current_day_or_so, |O_WRONLY|O_APPEND|)"   write(..)   cliose(..)   fsync(...) (error treating TDB). KISS  ? ( If you are paranoiac, use three copies, or else  :-) Peter peter.sylvest

Re: Registers at entry to subtask (from ATTACH)

On 12/02/2022 23:14, Tony Harminc wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 at 13:54, Binyamin Dissen wrote: The manual (MVS Programming: Assembler Services Reference, Volume 1 (ABE-HSP)) states 2-12 Used as work registers by the system. but I am looking at some old functional code which seems to expect (se

Re: Is there a TSO SEND history anywhere?

On 04/02/2022 22:42, Seymour J Metz wrote: Dead tree or online? URL? Google is your friend (in this case):    https://zh.booksc.eu/book/30664578/d49035 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Is there a TSO SEND history anywhere?

On 04/02/2022 21:06, Seymour J Metz wrote: "A Timer-sharing display terminal session manager", J. M. McCrossin, R. P. O'Hara, L. R. Koster, IBM Systems Journal 17, Number 3, 1978 pp. 260-275 says it started as Research Display Facility at the T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights.

Re: Is there a TSO SEND history anywhere?

The good old TSO/E session manager may be your friend. We had also the equivalent of the VM/CMS TELL. That was 35 years ago during the EARN/BITNET time. Like IRC or WHATSAPP. I don't remember where The SM was developed, someone said it was in Italy. On 04/02/2022 17:58, Charles Mills wrote: I

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

Hi, the original problem is caysed by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FTPSERVER-426 since Z/Os needs the EXTENSION UTF8 in the client, and this triggers sending FEAT before the login. best Peter Sylvester

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

Hi does enabling the FEAT extension for FTP solve the problem? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Chaining unix commands

On 24/01/2022 06:28, Itschak Mugzach wrote: Sorry: find / -name *.txt -exec echo {}; echo {} >> all.txt ; cat {} >> all.txt \; find / -name '*.txt' -exec sh -c 'echo {}; echo {} >> all.txt ; cat {} >>all.txt' \; might worlk, (but as already said, all.txt is probably not the best choice for

Re: Sockets?

On 05/01/2022 21:09, Bob Bridges wrote: C++ has nothing to do with C? That's weird. That is not what Bernd said.. C++ is C plus Simula67 classes. C++ was created by Bjarne who learned OO from  Kristen Nygaard, one  of the fathers of SIMULA67.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Strou

Re: how to copy entire pds to sequential file ?

x27;t take me as a jesuite, but for me the question to ask is: what is the purpose of the resulting "sequential fille" ? - restore the content?  iebcopy does that. - analysing the "textual" content by some tool ? does the occurence of "./ ADD MEMBER=x" hurt? e

Re: Is there a field that would reflect LPAR soft-capping?

Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

ch was shutdown (to remove all copies afaik), earn bitnet was saved by Eric Thomas by filtering in rscs. You had to execute it, a global social attack/joke, not like the other real worm in sendmail Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Linkling an object from VSE to be used in z/OS

shifing 1 byte to the left removing the  phase and mode changing the number of rld entries in the last rld record from x'34' to x'10 no complains from the binder the skipped rld entries contain x'0100' and one just zeros. no idea what that means, i have never seen vse On 07/10/2021 10:00

Re: Coding for the future

On 23/06/2021 13:04, Seymour J Metz wrote: Allow applications to establish environments for scripts (ADDRESS) , allow call-backs from within scripts and access the variables of the scripts. I wish that I could do that from within Perl, although I'd take the time to learn Python or Ruby if they

Re: Coding for the future

Hi, What about extending/embedding.html  of the python doc ? On 23/06/2021 13:04, Seymour J Metz wrote: Allow applications to establish environments for scripts (ADDRESS) , allow call-backs from within scripts and access the variables of the scripts. I wish that I could do that from within Pe

Re: Coding for the future

Al few comments: 1 - In 1973 at the university, we had the chance to learn programming using the SIMULA 67 implementation fo 360/370.     To me one of the influences of 80 column cards was that the compiler had (i.e. HAS) an option     INDENT=n     which indented the listing between B

Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD

, Peter Sylvester wrote: then beginning with the directory blocks, you always have a 12 byte header which contains the length of the followong data. there are zero length records to terminate. Have you done EXCP or built channel programs for DASD? I would think you would recognize a DASD CKD count

Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD

and browse with ispf.. best On 24/04/2021 19:04, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 18:14:20 +0200, Peter Sylvester wrote: finally I hacked a little python (need to learn rexx) to reconstruct the bdws/rdws of an ind$file corrupted iebcopy unloaded pds. this (is |was known to be)  possible

Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD

Hi, finally I hacked a little python (need to learn rexx) to reconstruct the bdws/rdws of an ind$file corrupted iebcopy unloaded pds. this (is |was known to be)  possible since the content is self describing. best Peter --

Re: Format PDS unloaded on an CD

Joe Monk seems  right with the déjà vu: If you have an iebcopy unload file transferred (as binary), the outmost layer of the rdws an bdws are simply gone. On the PC, the data are simply concatenated. not was to retrieve the blocks/records usin ind$file. Ok, so be it. This is not a catastrop

Re: Fwd: Format PDS unloaded on an CD

Hm, Doesn't this looks like an unloaded PDS via IEBCOPY? Was it unloaded initially to a tape? And then copied to the CD? /PS On 19/04/2021 07:42, Hilario Garcia wrote: -- Forwarded message - De: Hilario Garcia Date: lun, 19 abr 2021 a las 7:40 Subject: Format PDS unloaded on a

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

ports 80 and 443. I don' remember whether we put an ftp or telnet server on our end to allow the customer to administer their machine :-) best Peter Sylvester - retired ent -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers]

is a version of FORMAC (either Fortran or PL/I). Well, it was from IBM ? ;-( Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CBT Tape Updates

On 19/03/2021 03:34, Tom Brennan wrote: Since some folks here seem to like the current CBT format, maybe I'm doing something wrong and you can correct me.  Here's an example: ... Oops, back to the subject:  Now I have a zip file.  I can click on that and an XMI file appears.  But xmit manag

Re: TSO RECEIVE and System Determined Blksize - New RFE

touch a "modern" augmented mvs clone in 25 years, so maybe these were my faults. All this seems perfectly reasonable, " 'works as designed' since it is 'coded as designed' "  :-) Best Peter Sylvester On 02/03/2021 18:34, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2

Re: Disassemble an object deck

DISASM was in the field engineering library. When it starts, it tells that its compilation was jan 1968. Just send a copy to Sam. Peter Sylvester -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Goto Statements

On 08/06/2020 12:35, Seymour J Metz wrote: Didn't Datamation introduce COMEFROM much earlier? It seems a small inter"think" with the archive service in my head is required :-) Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: Goto Statements

Hi, Presented in an April 84 edition of a scientific journal. The fortran COMEFROM nnn :-) A student in internship in the 80 implemented it (as a joke to see whether his prof reads the work) for his fortran 88 compiler. The implementation is  simple. Peter Sylvester

Re: NJE connection error

a TCP trace first. ? On 01/24/2018 09:17 PM, Allan Staller wrote: > Too many possibilities to provide a useful answer (from the information > provided). > 1) check everything > 2) Open a PMR > > HTH, > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.

9 track reels 1600bpi

Hello, I aml ooking for someone who can read a tape written in 1981. 9 track reel 1600bpi preference in Europe. It contains the source code of a compiler an run time for the first object oriented language SIMULA 67. for the curious, binaries are in edelweb.de/Simula or on the CTTTAPE, or in

50 years object oriented programming

Hello, some of you may remember (or know) the first object oriented programming language Simula 67. next week, there will be a festival in Oslo. Best Peter Sylvester PS: Your (my first) posting to  the IBM-MAIN list has been rejected  because it contains an attachment of type 'APPLIC

Re: "hexadecimal"?

) - =X'ABCD' in BAL is still a representation of 16 bits. best regards Peter Sylvester : results are also available. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Re: SYSIN in PROC -- technique

d a little control dataset whose layout, i.e how many records by track, was calculated "by hand"; during a conversion from 3380 to 3390 disks I had a few minutes to fix that, fortunately full source (which I still have) but unfortunately copyrighted. Still a nice piece of co

Re: Fortran

ther was some competition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z4_%28computer%29 The *Z4* was the world's first commercial digital computer , designed by German engineer Konrad Zuse

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

On 12/05/2012 04:18 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <50bf02da.9010...@edelweb.fr>, on 12/05/2012 at 09:16 AM, Peter Sylvester said: Several "started tasks" programs around do not need "authorized" features. QEDIT does not require authorization. IBM docume

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

On 12/05/2012 05:50 AM, Clem Clarke wrote: I agree. MFT had a P command too, as I recall. You had to be able to stop the readers and writers, even though TSO, multitasking and all the good stuff hadn't been invented yet. Clem Several "started tasks" programs around do not need "authorized"

1600BPI tapes

Hello, I am looking for someone who might be able to read a 1600BPI tape. preference in Europe and Norway. There might be chance to recover the source code of the oldest OO language system:http://www.edelweb.fr/Simula/ Any help is appreciated, please answer directly to me. peter.sylves.

Re: AW: AW: Cbttape Freeware isn't available

arameter in the http request, which must contain domain name. It s typical that there is a default site that tells you: "Sorry Dave, don't send me just an IP address, I have multiple names." :-) GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.cbttape.org ... You may have a problem with