In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 10/18/2005
at 03:53 PM, Robert Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>EDIT is an example of what the original TSO design called a modal
>command, one that chats with you repeatedly until you say END. (IPCS
>is another.) CLIST caters to such commands by yielding control each
>time that a GETLINE, PUTLINE, PUTGET, or STACK operation completes,
That depends on the CLIST; there are several mechanisms for fine
tuning that behavior.
The bottom line is that the TSO stack and EXEC phase II were designed
in lockstep; REXX is not integrated with the stack and cannot exploit
all of its functionality.
--
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)
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