Actually, Unix is anything but unified.  Each little piece has its own unique 
syntax. Nor does it handle any of the record formats of its day.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:15 PM
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Subject: Re: IEHPROG Alias Load module

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:35:22 -0400, David Spiegel wrote:
>
>*IEBUPDTE has the ALIAS command.
>IEBUPDTE, however, does not work on Load Modules.


>On 2021-06-30 21:21, Joe Monk wrote:
>> It's IEBUPDAT that has the ALIAS function
>>
I understand the name "UNIX" was invented as a spoof of "MULTICS", perhaps
with some risqué wordplay (as Shmuel tediously reminds us.)

But I see the "UNI" as significant: it refers to "oneness".  I  can copy any 
sort
of file, program object, text, binary data, ... with the same utility: cp, pax,
cat (chmod may be required), ...  Even on z/OS UNIX.

And program objects and text files can reside in the same directory.
 Even on z/OS UNIX.

And "ln [-s]" can create an alias for any file or directory. Even on z/OS UNIX.

And on most UNIXen spool files are nohow special.  z/OS UNIX is the exception.

I like UNIX.  There's so much less to misremember as happened repeatedly
in this thread.


>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 11:18 AM essteam wrote:
>>
>>> Many, Many, Years ago I seem to recall the utility IEHPROG
>>> provided ALIAS function ...

-- gil

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