Yes. I thought the same, just *after* I sent it :-)

Roops

On 4 June 2026 00:48:13 BST, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
>cntl.0=0
>
>It's part of the ANSI standard.
>
>
>-- 
>Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
>http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
>עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי
>נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
>
>
>
>
>________________________________________
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
>Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2026 3:14 PM
>To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Any CLIST fans still here? I can't make DATA PROMPT work
>
>
>External Message: Use Caution
>
>
>Under Linux, Regina allows:
>
>cntl. = ""
>address system "LINK whatever" WITH INPUT STEM 'cntl.'
>
>(from memory) but (also from memory) it wasn't very portable the last
>time I checked. And I have no idea whether Brexx has this and, if it does, how 
>many versions of Brexx do.
>
>I think IBM or the standards people missed a trick by not nailing
>this down sooner!
>
>Roops
>
>On 3 June 2026 15:11:17 BST, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>That's essentially what DATA does, and it only works for GETLINE and PUTGET. 
>>It doesn't work for TGET and it doesn't work for *SAM.
>>
>>
>>--
>>Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
>>http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
>>עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי
>>נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________________
>>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
>>Thomas Berg <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2026 9:02 AM
>>To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>Subject: Re: Any CLIST fans still here? I can't make DATA PROMPT work
>>
>>
>>External Message: Use Caution
>>
>>
>>Sometimes problems like this (can't test it now) can be solved by putting
>>the parm to e g LINK on the stack (queue "LO(T.LOAD) PR(*) NCAL XREF LIST
>>LET TEST")
>>Followed by:
>>Address Tso
>>"LINK(*)"
>>
>>(I don't know if it works with LINK, but maybe qorth a try.)
>>
>>
>>Thomas Berg
>>
>>
>>"I wash off the hatred of my enemies and the greed and wrath of powerful
>>people."
>>
>>“I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality. What
>>is left of a man and all his pride but bones?”
>>
>>Den ons 3 juni 2026 14:09Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> skrev:
>>
>>> Thanks. Rexx fan here, but I searched once and never found a reliable
>>> way to pass responses the way that CLIST can. It's one of the few things
>>> that CLIST does better, as I remember it.
>>>
>>> I could rewrite it in a different way, but I started assuming there's a
>>> way to get it working.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Roops
>>> "Mundus sine caesaribus"
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>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
>
>
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>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

Reply via email to