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 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:15 PM To: [email protected] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
