On 13Dec09:1528-0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > On 12/9/2013 2:56 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: > > 2) That's a shame. Every programmer can benefit from familiarity > with the hardware - write a test program using EXCP to read a > multi-volume tape, or use XDAP to read a multi-volume DASD data set > with unknown block sizes. I remember Dr. Rannie talking about teaching Intro To Channel Programming using XDAP, not EXCP, so the students wouldn't have to worry about IOBs. He was challenged to come up with any other reason for using XDAP over EXCP.
Of course, "real" MVS programmers use STARTIO (unless they cannot get their code into an APF library, of course). ;-) -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
