My TSMBIRD was ASCII art on a 3277; is your ILRBIRD fancier?

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Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2026 2:13 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Two TSO terminal I/O from Rexx questions


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Will do.  I almost got fired for this program in 1984.


"Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit."

Bugs Bunny

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-------- Original Message --------
On Thursday, 06/18/26 at 16:55 David Spiegel 
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Richard,
Could you please send me a copy of the ILRBIRD source (if it is not
proprietary)?

Thanks and regards,
David
[email protected]

On 2026-06-18 10:30, rpinion865 wrote:
> I have the assembler program ILRBIRD.  Guess what it draws on the screen.
>
>
>
> "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit."
>
> Bugs Bunny
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> On Thursday, June 18th, 2026 at 10:22 AM, Schmitt, Michael 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Our site has a TSO CLEAR command that "clears the 3270 display screen and 
>> places the cursor at row1, column 1". The site documentation says "The CLEAR 
>> TSO command processor is provided from the SHARE tape.".
>>
>> CLEAR may be an alias for another program name.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
>> Charles Mills
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2026 5:16 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Two TSO terminal I/O from Rexx questions
>>
>> 1. If one were writing a Rexx exec to run in an interactive TSO environment, 
>> what would be the best way to clear the screen and make the next SAY write 
>> to the first line of the screen? Calling out to a user-written assembler 
>> routine that used the STLINENO macro? Or ... ?
>>
>> 2. From a Rexx exec running in interactive TSO, what would be the best way 
>> to determine the number of lines on the terminal? Basically the number of 
>> SAYs that one could do before the user received a *** prompt?
>>
>> Any related considerations?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
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