"M. Ray Mullins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The whole slash business in COBOL goes back to the OS/VS COBOL days, > before LE was even a blip on the PL/I radar (yes, that's where the LE > stuff originated, and why COBOL had to adapt to LE).
Well, the slash PARM separator goes at least back to the OS/360 loader which has its own parms separate from those of the program it is loading and executing. -- glen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
