CLIST libraries were typically V/255.
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:01:17 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: COBOL program
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Howard Brazee wrote:
>
> > On 26 Sep 2008 12:07:57 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve
> > Comstock) wrote:
> >
> > >> What makes you assume it's 80-byte fixed? (Other than
> > >> a dinosaur mindset, perhaps.)
> > >>
> > >> -- gil
> > >
> > >You got me, Paul. Of course it could be a different LRECL and
> > >RECFM. Just habit, nothing more. Guess you could call it a
> > >dinosaur mindset; maybe a dinosaur mindfulness.
> >
> > I believe I've come across a 133 column PDS once - but all the rest
> > have been 80 columns.
> >
>
> I have one that, for some reason, is VBA/259. I think it was from the time
> when the largest LRECL that could be editted in ISPF was 255 bytes.
>
> --
> Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from?
> A: Ein Stein.
>
> Maranatha!
> John McKown
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