In <[email protected]>, on
11/24/2013
at 11:43 AM, "Ze'ev Atlas" <[email protected]> said:
>I do not care so much about the actual implementation of the idea
>and its limitations. Surely, with two antiquated OSes like z/OS
>and Unix (form the nineteen sixties and seventies) there are
>limitations which both OS publishers dare or dare not (as it may
>be) correct. The issue is the concept, which, in my opinion, is
>better in the z/OS world. And the concept is that the computer should
>know where the file is, not the user.
I don't see a conceptual difference between /foo/bar/baz and
DSN=FOO.BAR.BAZ. There is a conceptual difference in the working
directory, and that is that the TSO prefix is limited to 7 characters.
Dealing with a file in an unmounted file system in *ix is analogous to
dealing with an uncataloged data set, or one cataloged in an
unconnected user catalog.
>And the concept is that the computer should know where the file is,
>not the user.
That's the *ix philosophy more than the MVS philosophy.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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