In <p06240807ca42c258b562@[192.168.1.11]>, on 07/12/2011
at 11:42 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> said:
>Working with EXCP is fun at times. I once had to write a routine to
>simulate doing READ BACKWARDS from tape by accessing the file from
>DASD (to allow reading an archive log so I could do data back-out). I
> used EXCP to read the CKD field
ITYM the count field. Unless it was a really old device, it would have
been easier to just read the entire track.
--
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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