In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/14/2006
at 01:48 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>IBM started out doing this in the UNIX side
No. Google for COBOL. The refusal to document COBOL messages goes all
the way back to OS/360.
I'm not saying that the Unix documentation people aren't asleep at the
switch, just that the COBOL people didn't get the disease from them.
Maybe the Unix people got it from the COBOL tech writers?
--
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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