The BOFH and User Friendly cartoons are funny but like nothing I've ever seen IRL. Dilbert, OTOH, leaves me with an eerie sense of familiarity.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Adam Jacobvitz <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 9:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Old joke realism -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I know this isn't mainframe related, but how realistic are the old computer jokes? e g. http://secure-web.cisco.com/1f2K4lkajzTKLo5c1rk3zVrtIrQsDcMOwmwySvMKhcI4rmltQY6WMVzc61COVPYp7_qm5pSiEYAjhjjxS0MhgSFKfvoloKx_40_s7pg1xzIpHlZkC6l64qBm1yuAU_HvaIhc0QgbpNj3ZRQVzi5c4S55yGnzeym0tpPp2CNcnHa824kWiikxJBxhqeSWOiApDgPOZ3IjmGk-a2HNbB5V-C7jmkU4WJjiGYgirgkQDT6dIAqsG6dVmPhp2OstOQ3lozL0wKUZnO7Fzl7tX93b8qTftq3cgJysQY3kaHTYj90SLgCW9BWab-PgMfcdQYCfM1fw5fEbNGqt7ylCJsJNafhwlhEJJR7ZaKP96liQ4u6LOgGDLTVrxyILYhlWGWZS0Bcm98oHKIjk7o4WqV_fJwx6vbXRGDENHyA3xt6JF3lJHn11tbvLz53QQXY9pXttG/http%3A%2F%2Fbofh.bjash.com Sent from ProtonMail mobile \-------- Original Message -------- On Feb 25, 2020, 5:58 AM, Seymour J Metz < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > I may have done that in the old days, but isn't everything interesting in the > CONSOLE address space these days? > > > \-- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List \[[email protected]\] on behalf of > Chuck Arney \[[email protected]\] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 8:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Finding and replying to outstanding reply > > Tony, I did this in assembler many years ago for the ZEKE Automatic Reply > feature. It has been too many years to remember all the details but > basically you search the ORE (Operator Reply Element) chain to find the task > you want and extract the reply id from the ORE. > > Chuck Arney > Arney Computer Systems > > > \-----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Tony Thigpen > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 7:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Finding and replying to outstanding reply > > We have an in-house written automated shutdown program that does everything > but shutdown NPF. That is because NPF leaves an open reply message during > start-up to which I must replay xx,STOP to make it shutdown. Within our > shutdown program, I would like it to programmatically find the outstanding > reply number so that it can issue the correct response. > > Can someone point me to any doc or examples that will help me get started on > this? > > \---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > \---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wsBmBAEBCAAQBQJeVSnnCRBiYga9B/zq3QAKCRBiYga9B/zq3UADB/0dZhRp UcRRDfmrpuMmNjoaaSQvP+ZtTqWJKOzVuFtHhluzRYjv22D4o6mNNow/k15D OSEI8Nx3PowV5jAy2aPGM+LgXACwrVQiNU8lIxYNQ87xFhhH4cm+ivTAe/vi kpZbye8szCz42/va67DWlkG72FV63eYB80DClQKgvjW0bGcbS7V+fQMPg9a7 kUTUSLPAdb9n+mhQtsx7dojZIMyeL4mssSOJZ3Wpo08aH/2A3PNAYuaCZB8K lOLthtry4c/fL0WOKHdHh7NsXcStjb4VDROJJn7b4amWR2tOWmzzskiAYlIc DzTJN6Nh7j8PsR2i/XcpI4s3FlL/0jeRR68g =8JGu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
