On 2016-02-03, at 07:20, [email protected] wrote: > In our portfolio of small utilities is a program that by its name prefix I > can tell is over 30 yrs old. It simply opens a file and writes the parm > to a record in the file w/LRECL=80. > So many installations have such that it's mystifying that it hasn't become a standard utility at some time in the decades since OS/360.
But the programmer who posed the problem wanted a minimalist and portable solution, requiring no installation of additional programs. Of course, inline Assembler is a possibility. On 2016-02-02, at 23:46, lists wrote: > > ... But the problem > doesn't seem well defined since a PARM can exceed 80 characters but card > images cannot. > That's *so* twentieth century although Assembler PUNCH imposes the restriction. -- gil
