On 6/12/2013 1:28 AM, Ed Gould wrote:
A friend really had a tough time writing the assembler code to do so and will be crestfallen that SAS has been able to do so (for so long). I think he wrote the code in the late 1970's.
The assembler code isn't all that complicated. On CBT file 860 are two programs, SAVETAPE and SMFMERGE, written in the late sixties by Richard Oxley, who did a passable job (in retrospect there are some things that could have been done better, but back then we were all learning our way around the 360s).
When Dr. Merrill offered his SMF package, we were running SAS, and the customer support group used it heavily. But I wasn't aware of the V(B)S cleanup feature.
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