> > Just looked over it now. Very very nice, I think I'll make > good use of it, thank you. > Glad to hear it. It's always good to know something you did was useful to someone.
> It's funny, Unix people say (think it was Kernighan or > Ritchie who said it first) that this is a spartan operating > system, that commands, directory, variable names are supposed > to be short and concise (thus the vowel shortage abundance :) > ), but I discovered mainframe hackers' code (be it my MVS > colleague's JCL or the shell code you submitted) is a lot > more spartan when it comes to designating objects. Makes > sense. You mainframe guys were already doing this way before > I was even born, when assembly was high-level and every bit count. > > Guess you are the original hackers :) > HAHAHAHA. There's not much you can do with 8 bytes. I haven't a clue why (there HAD to be a reason), but many names (member names, logons, ...) were limited to 8 bytes, so we were kind of forced to be creative. Actually, now that I think about it, didn't the Unices start out that way too? But, I did get a little carried away with that script... ;-) Leland
