Mike Thanks for noting this - although I'm not sure that the "UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program" initialised to UUCP adds a great deal to the discussion!
I guess the point is that this page is deficient in not defining a distinct set of letters to use as an abbreviated form of UNIX System Services. Now that would be a valid campaign objective for the SHARE subscribers - which is where the thread variant started. Chris Mason On Wed, 4 May 2011 13:57:33 -0500, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Chris Mason <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ed ><deleted> >> >> http://www- 01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/u.html#x2042481 >> ><deleted] > >On this page it has 2 definitions of note: >1. UNIX System Services >An element of z/OS that creates a UNIX environment that conforms to >XPG4 UNIX 1995 specifications and that provides two open-system >interfaces on the z/OS operating system: an application programming >interface (API) and an interactive shell interface. >[Note, no abbreviation is defined] >{Note several adjacent UNIX definitions, one of which has an acronym defined.} > >2. unformatted system service (USS) >A communications function that translates a character-coded command, >such as a LOGON or LOGOFF command, into a field-formatted command for >processing by formatted system services. See also formatted system >service. >[Note explicitly defined abbreviation] > >-- >Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
