I think I disagree.
You compile the program for ARCH(8). IBM guarantees that it will run on a z10
(do I have that right?). They do NOT guarantee that the program plus LE will
behave on a z114 exactly as though it were running on a z10.
No matter what ARCH the program were compiled for, I would
> How does z/OS handle a situation where two COBOL programs that are compiled
> at different ARCH levels and part of the same LE enclave? Since the vendor
> code receives execution first, does it determine the enclave level?
I don't think an enclave HAS an ARCH level. ARCH is a compiler parm. If y
on systems.
Thank you,
Brian Chapman
On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:34 AM Charles Mills wrote:
> > How does z/OS handle a situation where two COBOL programs that are
> compiled
> > at different ARCH levels and part of the same LE enclave? Since the
> vendor
> > code rec
> One of the tricks he pulled was to offload the RACF Database to a PC and
> Dictionary Attack it.
I *believe* that was done by investigators after the fact, attempting to
determine how the attack might have been done. I don't recall that there is
compelling evidence that Svartholm actually did
#1: Noo. It was a legitimate mainframe hack (assuming you consider USS a
legitimate part of the mainframe, which it has been for 20 years or so). It was
an exploit of CGI buffer overrun.
#2: It drives me nuts to hear mainframers explain away mainframe breaches. "It
wasn't really a mainframe
om/a-history-of-a-hacking/
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On Monday, May 6, 2019, 1:21 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
#1: Noo. It was a legitimate mainframe hack (assuming you consider USS a
legitimate part of the mainframe, which it has been for 20 years or so). It was
an exploit of CGI buffer o
ua.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Still never would have occurred without a valid userid.
> >
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> >
> >
> > On Monday, May 6, 2019, 3:18 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
> >
> > No.
> >
> > From the link yo
>
> Still never would have occurred without a valid userid.
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
>
>
> On Monday, May 6, 2019, 3:18 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> No.
>
> From the link you cite:
>
> "According to various sources, the hackers su
likely.
Charles
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On Mon, 6 May 2019 10:21:25 -0700,
I was travelling and I have kind of lost track of where this thread has
gone. Let me throw three thoughts out there.
1. Our job is to make our platform -- and if you are at a customer, your
site -- as secure as reasonably possible. Not "more secure than Windows." It
is NOT like the joke about the
No.
Read the original thread here.
It was a vulnerability in a Web server.
Hacking the RACF database was done well after the fact, by investigators.
Charles
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No.
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On Thursday, May 9, 2019, 1:16 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
To answer the OP question, Yes, assuming
- The perp has the ability to run some sort of volume backup, such as
authority to the volume and to run a volume backup program.
- The ability to copy the backup off of the system, su
ve your key on the porch for anyone to use.
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No argument there! :-)
Charles
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mai
+1, all around: the fandom, the years, and the logical points.
The mainframe seems to me to have also some "architectural" advantages. It
seems to support a denser "clustering." It does not seem to me that there is
anything in the Windows/Linux world that duplicates the advantages of 100 or
so ver
Passphrases and MFA!
Charles
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> I don't think IP addresses end up in the type 80s, though
They do not.
In really, really pursuing this I found IP addresses incredibly hard to audit
anywhere downstream from the TN3270 mapping to an LU name.
Charles
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+1CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity.
Original message From: Alan Altmark
Date: 5/14/19 11:28 AM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:
mainframe hacking "success stories"? Reading all of these posts has brought out
the salient points of IT se
"First, IBM rolled out z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), which makes it
possible to run Linux on Z applications that are packaged as Docker Container
images on z/OS. "Linux under z/OS.Charles
Original message From: Mark Regan Date:
5/16/19 5:53 AM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LI
Test to see if this solves my formatting problem with this list (only).Please
pardon the interruption. CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity.
Original message From: Charles Mills Date:
5/16/19 8:53 AM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Fwd
I think the bottom line is that there is no single guaranteed perfect
method, but depending on what your need is there may be an adequate solution
(as suggested by the other replies).
Charles
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Beha
Of course it does not matter to COBOL!
But it might matter to one or more applications that might just happen to be
written in COBOL!
No disrespect @Gil but this kind of answer drives me crazy. One thinks about a
problem. It is a big and complex problem with multiple unknowns and tradeoffs.
Th
ertain way, and to ask about that way rather than the actual
problem. Asking for clarification never hurts, and often helps.
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There is lots it could do! Make a decision on "strategy" based on the volume of
input, for example. Do I process it all or cut off after 'n' records and do
more on the next run? Do I read the file into an in-memory table and access
records there, or do I load it into a VSAM file for direct acces
e information isn’t available given the restrictions placed on the
> problem
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> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:56 PM -0700, "Charles Mills"
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Well then, that is a good answer to his question, so why don't you suggest
that? (Actually, you have.) The fact that there is a good answer does not make
it a bad question.
(Good answer subject to some limitations that have been discussed.)
Charles
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non-database files?
> EXECIO in REXX will give you the record count in stem zero
I believe only by reading the entire file.
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 8:02 AM Charles Mills wrote:
>
But everything to do with how big a stem variable array it can build.
Charles
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I am designing a long-running Rexx program that will from time to time
generate an e-mail via the SMTP server. The idea is to allocate a DD
SYSOUT=(B,SMTP) and write the SMTP commands to it. I've never done that
before so I have some questions:
- Am I correct in my assumption that I will have to "
and free it; repeat.
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Subject: Looking for clarification/guidance on SMTP DD FREE/SPIN
[Exte
That is one cool kludge! I had thought of having multiple DD's MAIL01, MAIL02,
... but this would be even easier. A little too kludgey, and I have no idea how
many times I might send an e-mail between restarts, but it is still a very cool
notion. Thanks!
Charles
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Interesting. I will keep that in mind. *Think* I will go with ALLOC/FREE, but
will keep this in mind.
Charles
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I am using GETMSG so must run under TSO/IRXEXEC already. Should have mentioned
that.
Charles
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non-zFS, non-database files?
On Fri, 15 May 2020, at 19:48, Charles Mills wrote:
> But everything to do with how big a stem variable a
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On Fri, 15 May 2020 13:50:08 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Thanks. Yeah, I love B
Extended format (VSAM and non-VSAM)
Or
(Extended format VSAM) and (non-VSAM)
?
The former is redundant or overly wordy: why not just say "extended format
datasets"?
The latter, OTOH, seems implausible to me. Why would they do all non-VSAM
but only extended format VSAM?
Charles
-
g for clarification/guidance on SMTP DD FREE/SPIN
How about utilizing Lionel's excellent XMITIP package to generate and send
the emails?
Dana
On Fri, 15 May 2020 13:08:40 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>I am designing a long-running Rexx program that will from time to time
>genera
> Haven't you switched to CSSMTP? What's the drop dead date on SMTP?
Nope and I don't know. I Googled and
and got no hits. Do you know?
> Do you want the SPOOL space release after the e-mail goes out? If you do
dynamic allocation then you need to use the right options.
Thank you. Yes. What opt
Thanks.
Looks to be 100% or at least 98% compatible at the "send an e-mail" level so
I don't think it matters a lot to this application.
SMTP is already up and running and functional and CSSMTP is not, so it makes
sense to use SMTP for now.
The system in question is V2R1 (yes, I know) and soon
I want to get the 3-or-so character *name* of the local time zone in Rexx.
What is the most straightforward way?
I get lots of hits that explain how to calculate the local offset from GMT,
but what I need is the name such as 'EST' or 'PDT' (and yes, I know the
limitations thereof, and that they ar
you did, I didn’t
> see
> > Timezone. Maybe a TSO function ?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 2:38 PM Charles Mills wrote:
> >
> >> I want to get the 3-or-so character *name* of the local time zone in
> Rexx.
> >> What is t
as having the same effect, but if the data set doesn't
already have an independent track group then unallocate can't change that.
I've sent an RCF.
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Mugzach
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True, but you know the offset. Btw, d t command tells you the utc. Use
console command
ITschak
בתאריך יום א׳, 17 במאי 2020, 22:06, מאת Charles Mills :
> That
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Subject: How determine local time zone *name* in Rexx?
I want to get the 3-or-so character *name* of the local time zone in Rexx.
What is the most stra
So "spin" is more or less synonymous with "independent track group," at
least for spin on allocation (DD or SVC99) as opposed to after allocation
such as with SETPRT or on unallocation?
Or re-phrasing the question, if I allocate with SPIN=UNALLOC and FREE on
CLOSE, and do CLOSE the dataset, then I
of https://www.timeanddate.com/ as well as know your latitude. A bit
more than a table look up.
sas
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 3:21 PM Charles Mills wrote:
> The heck with it! I wanted it for the "Date:" line in an outgoing
> e-mail but it appears that SMTP provides a s
The feasibility of answering this question depends a lot on whether one means
- a ballpark size -- in which case tracks * 56K might suffice, and might well
be available
- an exact size, in which case I fear you may be SOL
- an exact size ... but what does that mean? With or without LLBB's? With o
l Gilmartin
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Subject: Re: How determine local time zone *name* in Rexx?
On Sun, 17 May 2020 13:39:18 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Please read the subject line ... :-)
>
Beware of ambiguity. AST is both Arabia Standa
It was yanceled due to yovid-19. SHARE in Yoston, too.
Charles
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Subject: Yechnical
Did anyone attend the Tech
I asked this question this morning on RACF-L and got not a whimper. Perhaps
it is a JES2 question and not a RACF question?
I am issuing a JES2 $DQ command from a Rexx EXEC running under IKJEFT01. It
is all working but for every command issued I am getting
ICH70007I USER AUTHORITY CANNOT BE USED F
RALTER RACFVARS &RACLNDE ADDMEM(mynode)
SETROPTS RACLIST(RACFVARS) REFRESH
and the problem went away!
Thank you.
Charles
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I have a program that runs successfully in a job. I just cloned the JCL
appropriately into a PROC. When I issue a START for the PROC I get a started
message and an ended message but no clue as to why it failed. (It is
supposed to be long-running, so ending is a failure.) I don't think it is a
JCL e
r LOG, MSGCLASS, MSGLEVEL,
OUTDISP and OUTPUT?
Rex
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I have a program that runs successfu
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Thanks all!
- Yes, SDSF ST finds
It did not but now it does and it works!
Gosh, got it right on the first try. Guessed at the changes to make to the
below and seem to have gotten them all right on the first try.
I owe you all a virtual beer in Boston.
Charles
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What is wrong with this Rexx? (I spent about two hours debugging before I
solved it.) The problem is right here on this page: the answer is NOT
something in RACF or JES2. It's not something missing: it's a sin of
commission, not a sin of omission. The below will never work. That is, the
output will
dress Console in wrong location?
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Subject: Friday Follies/Why won't this work?/TSO Rant #387
What is wrong with this Rexx? (I spent about
> I called my congressman and he said quote
> I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.
>
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ILITE, will the answer become apparent? 😊
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Message handling is fine, othe
rn code is" GETCODE
EXIT
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:40 PM scott Ford wrote:
> Charles:
>
> I think that should be 'address mvs' ...scott
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:35 PM Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> Message handling is fine, other than one very specific probl
essman and he said quote
I'd like to help you son, but you're too young to vote.
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True enough, but in my (actual) Rexx programs I always code Signal On
Novalue. To do otherwise is to invite hard-to-debug surprises (present
example notwithstanding).
Charles
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Have to say that I agree 100% with @Phil (other than that I have only been
coding Rexx for about 25 years).
The other problem with omitting SIGNAL ON NOVALUE is that you can code IF
ARG(1) = FOOO ... and never realize that ARG(1) will never equal FOOO
because the variable is really named FOO, and
The problem was NOT that Rexx (or my coding style) failed to uppercase an
operand; the problem was that TSO did. Note my subject line: a rant about TSO.
'MyCart01' (as written, in camel-case) was my intended CART and it is a valid
CART: a CART may have any 64-bit value. The problem was that the
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On Sun, 24 May 2020 14:26:51 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>'MyCart01' (as written, in camel-case) was my intended CART and it is a
valid CART: a CART may have any 64-bit value. The problem was that
Right! Let the service fail and then report its error. Don't introduce some new
error to document and be learned.
Charles
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Not an excuse but I bet they mean they don't validate the length of the node
names. DSN='MYLONGNODE.WHATEVER' is valid.
Charles
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Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 8:20 AM
To:
Well, it was designed one piece at a time. First came DSN's and VTOC's; then
came catalogs; then came UNIX filenames.
Charles
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Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 9:11 AM
To: I
Relationship to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Future_Systems_project ?
Timeframe of FS was 1971 to 1975. Perhaps Talmadge was a "sore loser" when FS
was terminated?
Charles
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Amazing!
Charles
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Billy,
On second thoughts, We can opt
Aren't you glad you took the trouble.
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 8:05 AM
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Subject: FW: RCF SA32-0974-40 - z/OS Version 2 Release 4 TS
> "*local* time"!? WTF!?
Agreed, although my wild guess is that the existing date field DS1CREDT is a
"local" date (yes, dates are the high-order digits of time, and therefore have
time zones) so they needed to stick with local time to have the date/time
combination make logical sense.
Char
> ISPF, JES, SYSLOG, OPERLOG, etc. have been recording time as local time
> forever
The *right* way to do things is to *record* the time as UTC and then *display*
it any way the user wants: UTC, local to the LPAR, local to the user, etc.
Charles
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I am looking at some SMF 30 S222 ABEND completion codes. Most of them are
S222- as you would expect. A handful have a non-zero reason code, many
of them A618. The ABEND 222 documentation does not mention reason codes:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4
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Subject: Re: TIME a data set was created?
> ISPF, JES, SYSLOG, OPERLOG, etc. have been recording time
Yes, "ABEND S222" was shorthand.
> What exactly are you "looking at"?
I am looking at my report (or rather, an image of the output of my report
program, as displayed on a 3270 emulator). I posted my code that generates
the field in the report.
Yes, I know from experimentation (totally unrelated
https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/codes.html Charles
Original message From: "Farley, Peter x23353"
Date: 6/2/20 7:43 AM (GMT-08:00) To:
IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Punched cards and character set
Radoslaw,In the IBM world, all possible EBCDIC characters
The System/3 used 96-column cards that were physically smaller than
Hollerith cards.
Charles
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Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 7:43 AM
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> thousands of punched cards with no real way to read them anymore
In this day and age it should be pretty trivial to write software that would
encode a scanned image of a punched card.
Charles
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B
I am running the following and getting a return code 2034. I guess the doc
is saying that is a Signal 9. Can someone explain what is going on? I'm sure
this is elementary but I don't have much of a clue. No error messages! sleep
is documented as only returning 0 and 2.
//BPXBAT EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH
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Subject: What is 2034 from BPXBATCH sleep?
I am running the following and getting a return code 2034. I guess the doc
is saying that is a Signal 9. Can someone explain what is going on
schak Mugzach
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 8:56 PM Charles Mills wrote:
> Never mind. Found it. Out of memory. Putting a U4093-001C on the console
> but
> not w
"Laced" (every hold punched) cards were an amusing bulletin board item.
And yes, I believe I heard at the time @Jesse's premise as to why 'S' did not
use row 1.
Actually, the alpha codes are as follow:
A - I, row 12 plus rows 1 - 9
J - R, row 11 plus rows 1 - 9
S - Z, row 0 plus rows 2 - 9
So
was assigned the 0 and 2 rows because 0 and 1 were too close together,
then
why was "/" given rows 0 and 1? Does that punch a hole in this theory? GD&R
Bill
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 14:30:52 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>"Laced" (every hold punched) cards were an amusing bulle
Yeah, we used them for notecards and shopping lists until I used up my entire
stock sometime in the nineties.
Charles
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Fascinating!
I'm looking at a V1R4 TSO/E Rexx manual and the sentence is in there.
Chapter 8, Using Rexx in Different Address Spaces.
Charles
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It's still there in V2R4... and I am appalled that I've been running REXX
incorrectly for decades now.
sas
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 9:35 AM Charles Mills wrote:
> Fascinating!
>
> I&#
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 07:00:19 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>I must have time on my hands. I just dragged out the OS/390 V2R8 CDs from
>1999, and the sentence is there verbatim.
>
>It's the only hit on GRXBIMG on CD #1.
>
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 07:00:19 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>I must have time on my hands. I just dragged out the OS/390 V2R8 CDs from
>1999, and the sentence is the
I assume you tried IFASMFR 109 with no luck?
Charles
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Subject: SMF109 macro
I can't find a macro that ge
I remember SMF 109 now. There is nothing really to map. Everything through
SMF109SID is standard -- use any SMF record DSECT you want and change the names
to SMF109xxx.
Here is the mapping for the only additional field:
SMF109LOG DS CL4096 System logging daemon (syslogd) messages.
Yer
As a guy who has written a lot of documentation I think I would rather include
some excess verbiage and save user frustration and/or a support call.
It is a judgment call. You can overdo the redundancy. I have a VS COBOL manual
and it includes thorough instructions for writing link editor DD sta
It is SO counter-intuitive to put the name of a variable in quotes. You would
not code ENQ ('MYMAJOR','MYMINOR',E,8).
Once you realize that EXECIO is an external command, not a language keyword,
you start to get it.
Charles
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The documentation is written to aid human beings. It is not a hard-core
exercise in logic.
In writing doc I am often struck by a contrast to coding. In coding, if you had
to do the same three-line sequence at ten places in your code the right thing
would be to factor it out into a subroutine a
COBOL allows that implicit distributive IF. They call it "Abbreviated combined
relation conditions.."
IF (FOO = 1 OR 2) ...
Or even (if I am reading it right)
IF FOO = 1 OR > 17 ...
Charles
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Well, maybe. If foo = 'DISKR' then foo is right and 'foo' is wrong.
I think that is the point that others are making: there is no way to
"explain how to code EXECIO" without explaining how Rexx works.
Charles
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I long ago decided never to bother looking up or thinking about operator
precedence. If I am not immediately certain straight out of the box then I use
parentheses.
Charles
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