On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 04:57:49 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: > >There was a product from IBM called PCF and it would let you string >out tso commands with a ";" between each command and you could do >what you are talking about I just remembered it a 445A . ex: alloc >(systut1)da(in.contl) shr;alloc (sysut2) da(out.data) new sp(1 1) >trk;alloc fi(sysin) dummy;alloc fi(sysprint) da(*);call 'sys1.linklib >(iebgener)' >Is this what you are talking about? > No. As I understand it, he was talking about MS-DOS/PC-DOS.
>On Feb 5, 2016, at 3:11 AM, Bill Woodger wrote: >> >> MS-DOS/PC-DOS didn't have true pipes, and the "piping" provided was >> exactly as your DOS partisan described (writing to a temporary >> dataset, first process completes before second starts, reading the >> temporary file, etc). Command using piping "looked like" it may >> look in a Unix, but didn't operate the Unix way. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
