John, I am sorry Chris wasn't picking on you, it's my Irish moxey. John, IBM manuals are usually an adventure until you know the product involved. I worked VTAM for a long time took me forever to go thru the SNA formats, until I started working for a software company doing LU 6.2 file transfer, then I got good at it ...like reading traces and dumps every day...bottom line, exposure and aptitude...
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:24 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > The heavy irony in the rhetorical question > > | Why did I think that there might be a clue to the > | "C/C++ signature CSECT" in the C/C++ documentation? > > is understandable. Moreover, Chris Mason's manner does annoy some > people; but it would be unwise to ignore the substantive content of > his posts for this reason. > > Things do not always appear where one would like to find them in IBM > publications; and his example is a valuable illustration of how to > find them when they do not. > > Moreover, a good ROT to keep in mind is that things not found in the > IBM manuals for a particular statement-level procedural language may > well be found in its LE manuals and in particular in the ILC > discussions in these LE manuals, which contain useful detail that can > be found nowhere else. > > Moreover again, this is unsurprising. It is easy, because it is made > easy, for one C function to call another C function. It s not so easy > to induce Java to call C successfully. To do this one needs to know > more, and that more is just what is addressed in ILC discussions. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
