Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>IIRC, circa VM/370 there was only QUIT.  No PQUIT; no QQUIT;

>no aliases for them; no confirmation dialog.

 

That wasn't XEDIT, though, which came along later, in VM/SP. EDIT or maybe
EDGAR.

 

>Sounds like what I did.  Again, a personal profile.

VARCURL was an XEDIT source-level mod. Along with my personal favorite, SET
AUTOCASE: If AUTOCASE was on, when you entered or modified a line and then
hit an AID key, it would see if it was all lowercase; if it was, it would
uppercase it. So you could enter assembler:

 

label    ds      0h<hit PF tabkey>This is a comment

and wind up with

LABEL    DS      0H                                           This is a
comment

This was ASMXF, which didn't allow mixed-case code, of course.

 

>"In the early 80s, when dialup was the rule, ..." we used the Simware
emulator.

Heh. You had a PC, it sounds like. Sim3278 was designed for Volker-Craig
404s et sim. There was even a prototype VC terminal that had a 3270-looking
keyboard that sent the Simware key sequences for the AID keys. The Simware
guys were all ex-UofW, where I was working, so we were tight with them. It
was a great product for its time; they got obsoleted and killed, alas.

 

I miss my 3278-4.


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