Curses: I do feel constrained by the characteristics of an antique device. I guess that one man's Mede is another man's Persian.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COW for fork() is disappearing in z/OS 2.4 On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:43:12 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: > >> ... I'm astonished and dismayed to >> think that fork() is realized (sometimes) by sending imaginary cards >> through an imaginary card reader. >... >Unix is sending everything through an imaginary teletypewriter, is there >a difference? :-) > There is a difference. When I code a UNIX script I don't feel constrained by the characteristics of an antique device. I needn't be concerned lest my command lines exceed 71 characters requiring me to resort to splitting them and employing a bizarre and onerous continuation convention. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
