I've never seen it referred to as "ABSTRK", but I'm not a DOS guy. Who knows what they call it?
I've only ever seen it as "ABSTR", just like the JCL operand. > Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:20:09 +0000 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: item on TPF, ABSTRK > To: [email protected] > > Almost, but no cigar. > > > > 'ABSTRK' is correct; it stands for space allocation using absolute [hardware] > tracks [track numbers]. It is of course radically device-dependent; I have > used it, but not in OS/PCP and its successors for, probably, 40 years. > > > > It continued to be well known by name long after it had ceased to be much if > at all used because it figured prominently in error messages generated when > SPACE= syntax errors were made in DD statements. > > John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
