On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 at 21:17, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote:
> [...] > I believe Binder is exceptional. It (necessarily) supported UNIX files in > an intervel when > Allocation supported PATH but access methods didn't. What does it mean for allocation to support PATH if access methods didn't support it? How could such an allocation/DDname ever be used by a program? Would it have to retrieve (by some undocumented scheme?) the file name, and then use standard UNIX I/O on it? In consequence: > > o Binder does not support non-trivial concatenations containing UNIX PATHs. > > o Binder ignores FILEDATA and > - treats SYSLIN as BINARY > - treats SYSPRINT as TEXT. > It sounds as though that's what you're saying. I guess I don't remember that stage of UNIX on (presumably) OS/390. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
