In <[email protected]>, on
12/01/2013
at 10:14 PM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> said:
>I believe John Gilmore meant that the original S/360 architects
>thought that the system should support at least five levels in a
>file name and that each level could be as long as eight bytes.
Whether or not that's what John meant, it's certainly a reasonable
reading of the architects' intent.
>I suspect that this value of eight came from the maximum length
>of a PDS member name,
It's hard to say, but certainly the CVOL data structure is similar to
a PDS directory.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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