Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
IIRC, every volume initialized by ICKDSF--is there any other way?--will contain code in the IPLTEXT area that loads a wait state 00F, which says that no IPL text exists, unless that area has been rewritten with true IPL text. So you might write a program that looks for the 00F wait state code and infer that otherwise it has actual IPL text. You work for the guvment, right?
I believe that's right. That IPL text loads the "no IPL text" wait state, about which we have, um, perhaps not been entirely honest with you about for all these years.
It's not that there's *no* IPL text, in other words, but that there's no IPL text that will actually do anything useful.
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