On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 12:03:14 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >I believe that you're thinking of TSO Data Set Utilities: COPY, FORMAT >LIST and MERGE. The only good thing that I can say about it is that it >led me to order the ASI TSO Superset Utilities, a much more reliable >and better supported replacement product. > Is this comparable to saying that the only good thing about getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick is that it led you to blunt the stick?
>>And I find "cp" terribly confusing > >More so than ls, which is not an abbreviation for less? > But the (GNU, not POSIX) "less" is a facetious counterderivation from (POSIX) "more", even as UNIX is a facetiously risqué counterderivation from MULTICS. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
