You may be right; I was unable to find a copy of the pertinent Rexx User's Guide from that period, though http://www.rexxinfo.org/All%20IBM%20Rexx%20manuals/ALLIBM_1.HTM purports to provide such.
Leslie On 2021-02-10 04:30:20 René Jansen wrote: > Hi Leslie, > > I am sure you mean 1984. And then there was still only EXECIO. I have to > look up when VM/CMS got stream; TSO never had it until now, unless we > installed a library. I will try to find out the timeline. > > best regards, > > René. > > > On 10 Feb 2021, at 05:45, J Leslie Turriff <jlturr...@mail.com> wrote: > > > > On 2021-02-09 19:02:12 Michael Lueck wrote: > >>> Any ideas on how this was meant to be when it was designed? > >> > >> I never claim to be the best expert at REXX history, however... > >> > >> On Mainframe, I believe either the Stream concept came much later or > >> still is not there at all. > > > > The file I/O functions [stream(), charin(), charout(), chars(), > > linein(), lineout(), lines()] have been in the language since at least > > when I first used VM/CMS in ~1974. They could operate on CMS minidisk, > > Shared File System*, or Byte File System* files; sockets capabilities > > came later when a TCP/IP stack was added to VM. In MVS Rexx could use > > these functions to do I/O to QSAM, Open Edition or Unix System Services > > files. See https://www.vm.ibm.com/library/640pdfs/64622201.pdf Chapter 9: > > Input and Output, for example. > > > > Leslie > > > > > > -- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Oorexx-devel mailing list > > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel -- _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
