Oh my! I think I need to brush my "Think" sign off. Do you the IBM 370 Ash tray I have packed away in the basment is worth anything on Ebay? And yes, I have dropped a card deck, and i'ts no fun! - Now what was that syntax ... PIC X. I still have trouble not coding in all capitals.
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Awesome answer!
Hands-up for those who used punch cards and the IBM S370 with its card
sorting machine....
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Lis
Sent: Monday, 27 June 2005 11:59 a.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Locating files in a directory
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alastair Burr"
>There two things to remember: firstly, the DOS copy command seems to
>like a maximum of, I think, 72 characters in the command. Why it's not
>80 I have no idea but maybe somebody else does.
In the early days when we used 80 col punch cards for programming, cols 73 -
80 where used for sequence numbers.
In case you dropped your programming deck, just put it back in the sorting
machine.
In the modern world we must still think we can drop our programs (probably
right into the bit bucket)
Bernie Lis
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