> Punch read-feed might not have been included in OS360 (Why OS?) but is was > in DOS. Our 2540 punch station had the optional read feature and we read > cards and punched new info in them all the time. This was on a 360-40 > running three partition DOS.
PFR was certainly possible under OS/360 - it was key to the original Barclaycard systems used by Barclays Bank at Gladstone Road Computer Centre in Northampton, 1969-ish. The original Barclaycard statement was an 80 col/51 col turnaround document, both printed and punched with the account information. I have to admit to being one of the three Assembler programmers on the team that maintained the code and not being able to remember how we did it. I think it was EXCP. The bulk of the programme was actually highly modular COBOL E and I remember the phenomenal difference PARM=NOSPIE made to its execution. -- Phil Payne The Devil's IT Dictionary - last updated 2002/01/20: http://www.isham-research.com/dd.html UK +44 7785 302803 Germany +49 173 6242039
