The point that I am trying to make is that the behavior in question did not, as claimed, go back half a century.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2022 8:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to use LISTDSI from Rexx under Unix shell? On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 04:46:17 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Anachronism alert! You wrote "Attribute overrides have worked that way for a >half century, longer than MVS UNIX has existed." Half a century ago there was >no PATH and no SDB. In fact, there was no SYSEXEC, only SYSPROC. And there was no 3390, but BLKSIZE=3120 still works. What point are you trying to make? ________________________________________ From: f Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 9:10 PM > In REXX, long ago, prior to SDB. I used to ALLOCATE PATH(whatever) , LRECL(199) RECFM(V,B) ... and the REXX RTL would choose a reasonable BLKSIZE. -- 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
