Wow, the READY prompt! I used to be quite familiar with that, before ROSCOE and ISPF. I once wrote a CLIST that helped me navigate the OUTPUT command more easily, though I don't recall convincing anyone else it was better than the raw command.
Come to think of it, I still use TSO commands more often than some of the ISPF menu options - ED and VW and BR commands rather than options 1 and 2, for instance. I'm just happier with a command interface than some menus. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply; "we're raising boys." -Harmon Killebrew */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2023 18:29 I seem to remember that action when working on a PDP11 using a VT100 terminal. It was as if the designers said, hey, you obviously want a CR in the middle of the line, so there you go. And to Linux users, TSO READY mode must look really odd when they find they can move the cursor to a previous command and press Enter, but nothing happens until they overtype at least one byte. We must look like nut cases sometimes :) --- On 8/3/2023 1:27 PM, Rahim Azizarab wrote: > One of its oddities was that if you typed a line and happened to have the > cursor before end of the line the right portion of the line was lost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
