On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:17:31 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I guess I AM losing my mind. > Did you sew a name tag on it?
>I know nothing is more pointless than "how I would re-design MVS" discussions >but you know what would have made this whole set of problems more intuitive? >If when they originally wrote OS they had followed what became the convention >in UNIX and DOS, where foo/bar is relative and /foo/bar is absolute. They >could universally (including DSN=) have made ".FOO.BAR" mean absolute FOO.BAR >but "FOO.BAR" mean userid.FOO.BAR. > And classic Macintosh OS has much the opposite convention. its directory level separator is ':'. And "FOO:BAR" is taken as fully qualified; ":FOO:BAR" is relative to current directory. But a single qualifier, no colons, "FOOBAR" is always current directory relative. There's some Bad History there. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
