On Wed, 23 May 2007 17:04:34 -0500, Dave Kopischke wrote: > >>Will they permit SPACE=(0,(0,0),,CONTIG,ROUND)? >> That was just poking fun at Peter's plaint about the totalitarian administration. And I didn't even ask whether they also require directories to be allocated in multiples of 45 blocks - 1.
>>Will allocating 0 cylinders succeed if the volume has no >>free cylinders? > >Do you really want to know this stuff ???? Or are you just trying to send >someones brain into an infinite loop around the longest string of obsolete >parameters you can think of ???? > Sort of an early Friday topic. But someone answered, "Yes, it does work." I like that (something (minor) I like about z/OS?) I like it when designers get the boundary conditions right. And I deem it particularly elegant if they don't need to handle zero as a special case. And I can't mentally code this one so that zero is handled properly without special casing, in the mainline code. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
