This truly is sad news about Gilbert.

An inspiration to many people.

Rob Scott
Lead Developer
Rocket Software
275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
John P Kalinich
Sent: 10 October 2011 15:12
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A little bit more about Gilbert Saint-flour

Sam Golob from the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote 
on 10/09/2011 09:43:52 PM:

>Gilbert was responsible for keeping the CBT Tape up for five years.  He 
>supplied the MVS machine that the support ran on.  If it weren't for 
>him, I doubt that the CBT site would even exist today.

I remember FTP'ing some CBT updates to Gilbert's P/390 in upstate New York 
circa 1997.  I first heard of Gilbert when Sam wrote an article about ShowMVS 
in Technical Support magazine.  I, like others, have used many of his code 
snippets over the years.  He will be missed.

Regards,
John K

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