On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:39:08AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
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> ISPF edit.
> I don't remember XEDIT well (1978), but I think the 2 editors are very close.
not really (aside from running on the same hardware).
for your amusement
https://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html#y1982
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Lucio Chiappetti writes:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote:
>> Lucio Chiappetti writes:
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>>> Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The
>>> Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of the IBM
>>> VM/CMS XEDIT editor.
>
>> I remember XEDIT,
On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote:
Lucio Chiappetti writes:
Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The
Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of the IBM
VM/CMS XEDIT editor.
I remember XEDIT, from a shop that was using CMS for a while.
I
Lucio Chiappetti writes:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote:
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>> Yep, there is a Unix version of REXX and it's a reasonably good
>> scripting language.
>
> Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The
> Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020, Dan Espen wrote:
Yep, there is a Unix version of REXX and it's a reasonably good
scripting language.
Yes, it's called Regina, and is required if one wants to use THE (The
Hessling Editor) as editor, which is a very good Unix clone of the IBM
VM/CMS XEDIT editor.
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:02:09PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> First, DTL is crap, you really want to use ISPF as it was originally
> designed. You create a text image of the screen using punctuation
> to mark input and output fields.
Hehe. It's an interesting idea and one which probably still
Thomas Adam writes:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:44:10PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>> I had a lot of experience with IBM ISPF panels.
>> I wanted to model FvwmForm along those lines.
>> That's were the data reading and saving came from.
>
> That's amazing! I really don't know anything about IBM's
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 05:44:10PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> I had a lot of experience with IBM ISPF panels.
> I wanted to model FvwmForm along those lines.
> That's were the data reading and saving came from.
That's amazing! I really don't know anything about IBM's early software. The
closest
Thomas Adam writes:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 07:58:59PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>> We had a French developer working with us for many years.
>> Right now I can't recall his name, I used to fix up all the
>> documentation he wrote. He offered to fix up the comments but
>> never got around to
