In <4f439d1e-1523-49ed-815c-6fa3dcd87...@comcast.net>, on 05/27/2012 at 10:36 AM, Ed Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> said:
>I think that was because that way back when IBM had a TSO >product called PCF. If memory serves me one of the feature that >PCF offered was to be able to stack commands and to separate them >it used the field mark key as a delimiter. No; you could use FM as a separator without PCF. As I recall, PCF allowed you to use other characters, e.g., semicolon, as a separator, but did not disable the recognition of the FM. >Although admittedly the biggest feature of PCF was to do data >set dasd pooling Not command accounting? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN