While we're here, I would like to politely dispute the IBMer's implication
(and I apologize for forgetting his name and for paraphrasing) that all you
have to do is code the macros as documented and all will be well. I would
suggest that one cannot write reentrant or otherwise "special" assembler
c
No, no, I understood your original question (sorry if my answer was not
clear).
The hardware is designed for attachment to a PC. In my experience it comes
with
a. drivers
b. utility copy and dump programs
c. possibly library routines to facilitate development of your own software.
This is a gene
It has become pretty common due to the prevalence of PC-based "mainframes"
such as the FLEX. You can buy SCSI-attached mainframe-style tape drives from
dealers, such as T3 and Cornerstone. I think about $5000 and up depending on
new/used, model of tape, auto-loaders, etc. The tape drives typically
Why do I get this strange feeling of déjà vu?
Charles
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Subject: Null in JCL causing ERROR
We are on z/OS 1.7 - We ha
My former company (Firesign Computer) was a success story for the
predecessor machines and program. We acquired two P/390s through the PiD
program (mid-1990s). We developed Outbound which became (according to
Gartner) the number three inter-machine file transfer product (after
Connect:Direct and CA
Great article! Thanks.
Charles
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Subject: Another article on the Flex/IBM issue
http://www.itjungle.com/big/big032007-st
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/05/2007
at 03:44 PM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Is IEF686I DDNAME REFERRED TO ON DDNAME KEYWORD IN PRIOR STEP WAS NOT
>RESOLVED new in z/OS (new relative to OS/390)?
That message or one very similar goes all the way back to OS/360.
&g
The current LE "COBOL Migration" manual lists a fair amount of analysis and
work to determine and or provide for upward compatibility. I believe them.
When a customer has hundreds of "not recently touched" business-critical
programs, and no one who knows how they work, and no budget for conversion
Dumb question: does IBM only distribute various fixes electronically, or can
you get an entire newly-ordered product via the Internet?
Charles
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:1
Thanks, Tim.
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:29 AM
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Please bear in mind this i
> AND OF COURSE, as far a RUN-TIME goes, if you have z/OS, then you already
> have the OS/VS COBOL run-time support. (It's part of LE).
Well, now you're getting to the heart of the actual issue. (This is not just
an academic question.) LE support for the older COBOLs is 99% compatible --
which is
ing the word "sale" loosely -- obviously, software is licensed)?
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Don't recall the size of JESMSG. I did an S (rather than a ?) in SDSF, so I
saw everything concatenated, and the total was probably 60 or so lines.
Charles
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Ah! Thanks. You and Ray are right. It's flushing but on a different error.
I was just about to beat myself up for not realizing that the subject
message is an "I" message and could not possibly be fatal ... but then I
noticed that the error it IS flushing on is an "I" message also. Go figure!
I gu
cated with several
concatenated PDS members and many intervening //* comments.)
Yes, I know how to fix it (//MOREDD DD DUMMY) but I was just surprised that
something that used to work had stopped working. I would be interested in a
confirmation that I am not missing or imagining something.
Cha
Seems to me like a simpler bit of magic than that which makes PDSEs seem to
have 256-byte directory blocks.
For all of the LE programs, no problem.
For all of the assembler programs doing vanilla GETs and PUTs, no problem.
If you're manipulating BBCCHHRs, well, you're on your own. Similar to
pro
Are you sure? I don't believe BPS became TOS. I think TOS was DOS stripped
of DASD support and with a tape SYSRES.
BPS was not really an operating system, as I recall. It was a bunch of I/O
routines that could be linked with a user program such that the application
programmer did not have to write
Check the archives for the moaning and groaning about layoffs, mainframe
power-downs, and the lack of openings/opportunities.
I don't believe it's all doom and gloom but any US company that can't find
domestic sysprogs is either not looking very hard or is offering
$36,000/year.
Unless you have c
This might be a sign that the mainframe (and by implication, you) are being
de-emphasized. OTOH, he may quickly realize that the mainframe is strategic
(is it at your shop?) and that he is responsible for it (in a management
sense of "responsible") and that you are his lifeline. Could be a good thi
Thank you!
Charles
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Awe, come on! Not one person on IBM-MAIN knows the naming rules for LPARs,
and/or where the rules are documented?
Charles
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Ah! I knew someone out there was paying attention in math class. Thanks.
The VB issue is complex. VB.Net breaks a whole lot of VB6. It will
probably break this program somewhere, but the program is for internal use
only in a software company, so we're used to broken software , and
there's no reas
ic
I see it's not as simple as I thought. Maybe if it's negative, zero the
sign bit with an "And", divide by 256, then "Or" the quotient with hex
0080 to recover the dropped bit.
>On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:48:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>>
What are the naming rules for logical partitions? (I'll go RTFM if I have it
-- is it on the DVD?)
8 characters, upper case alphanumeric, first character alpha? Are $, @, and
# legal? (Hate those non-invariant EBCDIC characters.)
Thanks,
Charles
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Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 2:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:48:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>' Simulate a shift right logical 8
>If R6 >= 0 Then
>
R6 = R6 \ 256 ' \ is integer division
Else
R6 = R6 \ 256 ' \ is integer division
R6 = R6 - 1
R6 = R6 And &HFF' Equivalent to S/390 X&#x
> Overlays were much more important before the availability of virtual
storage than after.
Right-o. Overlays are in effect programmer-managed virtual storage.
Charles
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/19/2007
at 12:11 PM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Only i
This is part of the whole MVS schizophrenia on members IMHO.
- Does not SVC 99 info retrieval return DSORG=PO for DSN=pds.name(member)?
- Can you not open DSN=pds.name(member) with a BPAM DCB and do FIND and BLDL
against it?
- Why does DSN=pds.name(member),DISP=(OLD,DELETE) not delete just the
mem
I dunno. I've always done it this way:
//SYSTSIN DD *
XMIT A.B DSN(pds.name) OUTDS(flat.file) -
MEMBERS(member1 member2 etc)
Charles
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Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:34 PM
"Net 30" is sometimes specified in the license.
Charles
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> TOS/360, as noted above, is essentially the same as DOS/360.
Only if a tape is essentially the same as a disk!
TOS's code base was largely common with DOS, and the programming APIs were a
subset -- but the SYSRES was on tape! Believe it or not. The equivalent of
an S806 took about ten minutes:
I think what we are hearing is that my earlier suggestion that "maybe the
problem is your AP department" was not a red herring after all.
Charles
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Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:5
Getting OT here but my experience managing a SW company was that direct
deposit EASILY paid for itself by not having employees running to the bank
on payday. Let's say you pay someone $80K/year. That's roughly $40/hour, and
roughly $3077 per pay bi-weekly pay period.
30 minute run to the bank: $20
fails to mention that fact, you're right
back where you were. They have the customer's ear and speak his language;
you don't.
Charles
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Ted, if you haven't gotten why the trust model is inadequate from my past
posts, and David Cole's, and Dave Salt's, and Russell Witt's, then my
explaining it again probably won't do the trick either.
I didn't list the customers' needs because I assumed you customers whom I
was addressing would kno
Do keep in mind that if mainframe software maintenance were labor-free, most
of the members of this list would not have jobs!
If anyone has a better scheme, I'm all ears. IBM-MAIN members, design a
software control system for me. How would it work?
My needs are
- Expiration date
- Serial number
Perhaps the problem is with the speed of your accounts payable department?
Charles
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Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:51 PM
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Subject: Re: License keys for ISV
I'm often the voice of dissent here. Let me throw out a few
counter-thoughts.
Bruno Sugliani wrote "we don't care (sorry about that) about the sharks
robbing the poor salesmen" and he's right, of course. It's not your (the
customers') problem if our (the vendors') salespeople have difficulties
doi
I have a lot of experience as a mainframe software vendor. I totally
understand what you are saying.
The other side of the coin is that some customers abuse software vendors. At
my former company, we had several of what we called "the trial from h---." A
prospect would run a trial forever, with ex
: charlesm at mcn dot org
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Charles Mills
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Specifically, "How tell name of originating load library?" from August 14,
2005.
Charles
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Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:40 AM
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Ted, you might want to point your senior DBA guy at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/db2storedprocedure/db2zos390/techdocs/Z0
1.pdf (watch the wrap)
This is a presentation by Fiona Gleeson, Director, DB2 UDB for z/OS Silicon
Valley Lab at the DB2 Information Management Technical Conference call
You and I might both be better off if you could confirm that and get back to
this list. From the DB2 V8 App. Prog. & SQL Guide, Table 173 in Appendix
1.2.2:
"For all instances of COBOL in this table, the application can be compiled
using OS/VS COBOL, VS/COBOL II, or IBM COBOL for MVS & VM."
Charl
at is not what was being discussed
by Mike Bell in the note you replied to. He's talking about running without
re-compiling.
Charles
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REALLY
No program compiled under "older" COBOL is supported for RUNNING under DB2
V8???
Charles
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I'm not a DB2 guy, so everyone please forgive my ignorance on this. And yes,
if it gets deep, I'll take it over to the DB2 list.
It's for a product solution for a customer, so I would like a certainty that
it will work generically, not a "look at the pre-compile output and try it."
No, I don't wa
; I mean do the technical specs allow it; I'm assuming
proper IBM product licenses are in place.)
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I suspect this is a problem (phenomenon? -- some think it's a feature) that
has been discussed here at some length in the past few weeks. DFSMS is
creating the dataset in the same location as before, and the same data is
still there. Don't know enough about ISPF edit internals to know why it
(alone
I've got a sample program from somewhere that I know does produce output on
SYSJAVA. It is called ACCOUNT and I *think* it is an IBM sample program but
I'm not sure. It begins
cbl dll,thread,pgmname(longmixed),lib
Identification Division.
Class-id. Account inherits Base.
IBM touts it as being for "OO programs" but from a practical point of view,
from the point of view of converting one record layout to Java, I don't know
what that means.
I believe SYSJAVA was available with roughly the same facilities in V3R3 as
in V3R4, AFAIR.
Charles
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I hesitated to reply because I know just enough about this to be almost
dangerous. But since no one else has replied, and fools rush in ...
Isn't this what the Enterprise COBOL compiler outputs on SYSJAVA?
"When you compile a COBOL class definition, a Java source program that
contains a class def
So many MVS utilities have vernacular names that consist of a 3-letter
prefix followed by a functional name, they just seem to roll off the tongue
that way: I-E-B-copy, I-E-H-program, I-E-B-gener, I-E-B-print/punch,
I-E-H-init, I-E-H-list, I-E-B-update, D-F-H-sort.
I-D-C-access-method-services see
Oh gosh, it would be a very reasonable programming task to enhance a sort
program to have multiple input files that were allocated with separate DD
statements (SORTIN01, SORTIN02, ... ?) and to read them in succession as
though they were a single file.
If Gilbert's exit can do it, surely the roomf
Does this work with PDS? Only PDSE? Only HFS?
I did not mention it but one surprising result of my experimentation was
finding that a STOW of a member name that began with a digit completed
without error, but afterwards the member simply did not exist. Yes, probably
reportable as a defect, but I w
Cool idea. Other characters may also be possible. I got into this when I had
my company with its PC-mainframe file transfer, and was dealing with how to
handle making members out of PC file names. As I recall, at least at that
time, it was possible to STOW a member with lower case letters in the na
I guess for any of these approaches, the question becomes "how tight does
this have to be/how clever (or malicious) are your users?" I think there is
probably a tradeoff between how hard it is to do and maintain versus how
well it addresses the question in this paragraph.
We have not even mentione
How about some sort of scheme in which you alias your program as A, and
re-name program A to $A? So when the user runs A, s/he gets your program,
which then links to the old A?
In this approach or the one suggested by John, you could turn the function
on and off with a system variable or a parm fi
Let me second what Walt says. Don't even do this as your SECOND project in
assembler!
I have done this, and it's all documented, but the interdependencies of the
parameters, their implications, and what works when, and so forth, can be
difficult and frustrating. (Sorry -- I no longer have access
nd reject" trying to tell me?
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:05:38 -0800, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The support center would be an inappropriate resource, based on my
>experience. I believe they do not "help with problems" -- they "resolve
>defects." Had
here and put in the effort necessary
to solve them "correctly," then why should it be worth it to me?
Charles
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> Did you talk to the Support Center?
No. Frankly, the cost-benefit ratio of recent interactions with IBM have not
been encouraging.
OTOH, this list has been a valuable and effective resource.
I don't want to spend hours proving the problem to IBM, with the goal of a
PTF that I then have to co
> Why in blazes don't you specify a legal LRECL
The entire situation is more complex than a listserve note. There are many
variables, unknowns, and tradeoffs. One automated process is generating JCL;
another process over which I have less control is running under that JCL. I
don't specify LRECL, e
1. I did not get any message other than the message in the OP --
specifically, no S013. I'm not intentionally leaving anything out of the
story. As I look at the code now, the input DCB OPEN exit provides a maximum
size BUFL if it is still zero at the time the exit is drive -- that code was
no doub
en herrmannsfeldt
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:13 AM
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Charles Mills wrote:
> 1. It IS on SMS DASD. This is not a theoretical problem -- it happens in
> real life. The problem is ***not*** with DS1LSTAR or EOF markers. The
> problem is tha
to tell me?
On Sunday 21 January 2007 20:28, Charles Mills wrote:
> ... The problem is that the BLKSIZE in the DSCB is zero, QSAM picks that
> up, puts it in a CCW, falls on its face, and diagnoses the situation with
a
> message that it takes a CCW expert to decode -- rather than diagn
> Why not just take the matter up with your friendly IBM representative
She was downsized in 1996.
BTW, it never was an EOF issue. The issue is that QSAM does something stupid
and then reports what it did in the most complex way possible.
Charles
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One more time:
1. It IS on SMS DASD. This is not a theoretical problem -- it happens in
real life. The problem is ***not*** with DS1LSTAR or EOF markers. The
problem is that the BLKSIZE in the DSCB is zero, QSAM picks that up, puts it
in a CCW, falls on its face, and diagnoses the situation with a
Right. Actually, I think it is the zero BLOCK size not the zero RECORD
length that ends up in an invalid CCW, but pretty much equivalent
manifestations of the same root problem.
BTW, and FWIW, I have solved the problem by adding to the code a branch to
normal EOF if after opening the input DCB, an
nging LOWERCASE TO
UPPERCASE)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/16/2007
at 09:43 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It would be great to be able to pass stems to Rexx functions,
>internal or external.
Well, if you could convince IBM to port OOREXX to MVS, ...
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Right. Or per watt-hour. People mis-use these ratios all the time. You hear
people talk about "how many MIPS a particular transaction uses." That's like
saying "how many miles per hour is it from New York to Boston?"
Charles
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Thanks. Nice looking code!
I kind of wonder about the overhead of looping through all of the Rexx
variables with IRXEXCOM. A lot of work if the program has lots of variables,
but the stem in question has only a few tails.
Charles
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It would be great to be able to pass stems to Rexx functions, internal or
external. Even with an internal function, you are reduced to passing the
NAME of the step in quotes, and having the function use Interpret or Value
or similar.
I don't know exactly what the invocation syntax would be, but it
> So, if you do things "the new way" with SMS, you would have gotten
> the result you were desiring. The ball is in your court.
I don't think so. The dataset IS SMS-managed, IIRC. The problem is not the
lack of an EOF record, the problem is that QSAM sets itself up for failure
by building a CCW w
The TN3270 reconnect failure is one of THE most annoying things about remote
mainframe work.
Reconnect worked so well in the "good old SNA days," I keep thinking that
the TSO/Comm Server/whatever folks have not really accepted that TN3270 is
here to stay, and ought to be made to work well, not mer
A good question, and something I meant to cover in the OP. A "real," albeit
long-in-the-tooth and smallish mainframe, a 2003 with in-the-rack 3390s.
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, January 11
Thanks for your thorough answer. I think the full answer is that I am
reading a file that has been created but not written into, and so yes, the
DSCB-1 may well say BLKSIZE=0.
You know, to return to an earlier thread, I would call this a user-hostile
approach on MVS's part. Why would not a designe
d CCW chains back in the S/360 days so I am generally familiar with
channel and DASD concepts, but why should I be getting a command reject when
QSAM is building the CCWs? I have RTFM but without being a modern DASD CCW
expert, I don't know quite what to make of the information there.
Thanks,
With all the trivia and word games and nostalgia and nit-picking and such
that gets posted, how could anyone object to the announcement of a new
mainframe class?
I say "keep up the announcements, Steve." The people who need the classes
most are the least likely to sign up for the opt-in list. How
might have changed. The IBM Web site is . ahem . a little bit of
a magical mystery tour.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Charles Mills
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Pet peeve. Saying mainframes versus servers is like saying Fords versus
cars. A mainframe typically IS a server (often among other roles). The first
definition Google comes up with for server is "A computer that delivers
information and software to other computers linked by a network." I would
quib
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Charles Mills wrote:
> expertise and budget, you can't sell people what they don't want. If
people
> ar
And for some non-mainframe server software, if you add another CPU, your
license costs do double. I think Oracle prices that way, and I think IBM may
price some software that way.
Charles
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> HW maintenance for 120 PCs is probably cheaper than for one z9.
Especially since it might well be "if one breaks, we'll replace it."
Charles
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To: IBM
I don't want to get too far OT here but
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob has a good summary of what "Bob"
was, and Melinda (French) Gates' role.
My point was that it is easy for the advocates of some product (in this case
mainframes) to dismiss the success of some other product (in this
Amen, brother. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
As current events show, you don't win a war by kidding yourself about what
the enemy is like.
The customer is right. If people are buying non-mainframe boxes, there is a
reason. Oh yeah, clever marketing. Wrong. You can't sell much of anything
t
Based on experimentation:
- IRXEXCOM works fine in a non-integrated environment. Of course, I have not
used every function, but I have retrieved and set lists of individual
variables extensively.
- Yes, as you say, a "non-integrated" environment works under TSO, perfectly
for my particular requir
Mea culpa. I know that Xpediter is a Compuware product, and I certainly know
that CA is not an abbreviation for Compuware. (In fact, I was not using CA
as an abbreviation for anything but as the name of a product -- erroneously,
as it turns out). My apologies for any offense or confusion.
Charles
, etc.
Charles
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Subject: Re: How to write a full-screen Rexx debugger?
What if you:
- Built a full-screen applic
What if you:
- Built a full-screen application with two panes. The upper pane would be
for output. A user could scroll up and down through the output, so s/he
could readily see output produced earlier in the session.
- The lower pane would be for input. A user could either type a command, or
sele
Ah!
Would it be possible to "replace" TRACE with your own service routine, that
would do TSO full-screen presentation of the data, rather than Rexx's line
I/O. Interesting question. That would be a useful "product."
You can write code that Rexx will call for all I/O including Say. See
Chapter 14
Ah! Binyamin and I answered different questions, I think. By "full-screen
Rexx debugger," do you (the OP) mean:
- a full-screen debugger for Rexx programs? Or
- a full-screen debugger for programs in general, written in Rexx?
I answered the latter question; I think Binyamin is answering the forme
I have not used XDC or CA-Xpediter, but I would imagine you could write a
debugger in "mostly" Rexx with some assembler. Take a look at the TSO/E
Programming Services manual for a discussion of how to write a native TSO
full screen program.
You will also have to give some thought to the "debugging
pdc (and anyone else), if you will write me privately, I will send you a
comprehensive chart of FTP job submission timeout possibilities and their
resolution.
I searched both my PC and the archives for your original note and I can't
seem to find it. I incorrectly sent the chart to the first person
I was doing a contracting project years ago for the Virginia DMV. They took
me down to see the customer interaction. Chaos was reining because a guy was
getting his photo taken and wanted his guide dog to be in the photo with
him. We all of a sudden went "seeing eye dog in a driver's license photo
And frankly, speaking as a vendor, a more economical (for the vendor)
approach.
Charles
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Charles Mills wrote:
>I don't think so (but I'm not a patent attorney). If you can pu
Way OT, but FWIW, Whelan v. Jaslow ruled that copyright protected code
re-written from one programming language to another. As I recall the case,
it was a transcription from IBM Series/1 EDX to something else, maybe PC
Pascal. And the plaintiff was able to show that "dead" code that was never
c
Well, this forum is not the right place to "sell" my invention, but the
difference is that you might presumably be willing to share your name and
key with a wide circle of friends, and if you had had the malicious
foresight to buy it under an assumed name, then you could freely share it on
a bullet
Public key cryptography was one of my inspirations. Discussion of cancelled
credit cards here http://cikeep.com/faq.htm.
Charles
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