John, I share your feeling :-) Stealing (sharing :-) code is a time honored technique, one that I have every intention of making part of my "new JCL" proposal (if it ever gets that far :-)
My memory of the 026/029 keypunches was that you could enter lower case alphabetic characters, you just didn't want to without a really good reason :-) I also seem to remember a higher incidence of card reader jams because the punched cards were not as stiff because more material had been removed from the card (multi-punch was more than just a name :-) this resulted in misfeeds/jams due to the mechanical nature of card readers. (Note: This same problem was why object code was notorious for card jams :-( John McDowell >I always got the feeling that orignal OS/360 JCL programmers either stole >the parsing code from the then-existant assembler, or vice versa. JCL and >old style assembler just seem to be so syntactically similar that somebody >must have swiped some code. And, again, we go back to old style keypunches >as to what the original JCL thought was reasonable to expect. Keying in >lower case on a 026 - is that even possible? I wish that JCL would >"advance" like HLASM did. HLASM accepts lower case for things, but >automatically upper cases them unless they are in ' or " strings. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
