Thinking about how I might be able to transfer a simple text file from
within CMS to the Hercules host I had the idea that I may be able to send
it to the card punch which would should then appear in the a host file but
I then discovered that VM virtualises the card punch so when you use the
'punch' command the output is placed in a spool file. Not a great surprise
but the spool file is not marked as held and yet I can't seem to find any
way to tell the VM spooling system that it should send that file to what it
thinks is the real card punch (i.e. the one virtualised by Hercules, not
VM). Exactly the same situation applies to the printer.
You need to start the "real" card punch or printer, for example, while logged
in to OPERATOR or MAINT, use:
CP START 00D
(00D) is the "real" address of the "real" card punch.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
