On Sun, 4 May 2008 14:53:08 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Paul Gilmartin wrote: :>> it if it exists regardless of syntax rules). If the designers :>> intended to support mixed case names, as STOW and BLDL do, TSO, :>> ISPF, and other utilities should not overrule their design by :>> forcing input to upper case, particularly if the member name :>You're imputing too much into the design. When OS/360 was first :>written, there were no keypunches with lower case, and no way to :>place lower case letters on an IEBUPDTE ./ ADD or LKED NAME :>statement (short of overpunching). The lack of case conversion :>was more likely a decision of convenience in implementation, :>rather than intent. Otherwise we'd need to conclude that they :>also meant percent signs and other funny characters to be legal, Obviously you never used SMP/4 - it used many names with unprintable's. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
