Re: random OS/2 trivia
Hello! Remember what I posted.. I'm not doubting the circumstances, if any that is. However..... I'm still looking for that missing example thing called an "OS/2 Runtime for Windows". ----- Gregg C
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Gregg Levine
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
Gregg, You can just see on this keyboard for sale on E-Bay https://www.ebay.com/c/1300341987 the right control is labelled "enter" and the left "reset" Dave
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Dave Wade
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
Hello! I believe it is. We'd need Dave M to comment on that, but he's busy answering questions from people who are being surprised. This is something even I can't answer which is certainly a first. As
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Gregg Levine
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
Isn't it older than that? The 3178 keyboard had both a "newline" key which moved the cursor and "enter" which generated an aid. The newline was where the right control key is on a modern keyboard,
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Dave Wade
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
I was working at IBM (in FL) at the time of OS/2 and was on some of the original task forces that were defining the OS. Unfortunately management didn¡¯t listen to us on quite a few topics. The
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@shiresoft
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
I prefer using ENTER on x3270.? I use Shift-ENTER for new line (or fake it with a tab key)? on it. Yes, Left-Control is Reset on the OS/2 emulator. That's what you get for using z/OS instead of
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
As a professional developer on z/OS (not a quality claim - just that someone pays me) I've used Right-Control as <enter> and Left-Control as <reset> from the mid-90s to today - and for the foreseeable
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Greg Price
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random OS/2 trivia
apropos of nothing ... I decided I have not done enough of the Masochism Tango lately, so I got OS/2 Warp Connect 4 installed under VM Fusion. Fascinating CD formal, let me tell you -- my Mac wanted
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
That's not scalable.? Consider what BitNet did, which was have a single site generate the map for the network and send it out.? Fifty sites to have to assemble the new table? I'm aware of that, and
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
Drew Derbyshire wrote: [snip] It's definately configurable by files. It's just that you have to assemble the files and build a new RSCS nucleus to make permanent changes :-) More seriously, it is
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
Drew, Sorry for the top post. I think the HELP needs revising! I have found that the BREXX is pretty reliable and executes most standard REXX (as opposed to VM flavoured) EXECs just fine. In fact when
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Dave Wade
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
Drew Derbyshire wrote: MUSIC doesn't have to be running in order to make use of the support I've developed for MUSIC TCP/IP. My idea is that that VM/370 could be made capable of using the same IUCV
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: Greetings to everyone who has just arrived and arrived when we announced
Mine seem to be working.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
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Richard Harper <richard@...>
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
Agreed.? But for that the external variable support is needed. also (I had forgotten): * configuration via file * MSGNOH support * link passwords Go through BitSavers manual for the RSCS PP R3.? No
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
Huh?? Do you have a S/370 copy of MUSIC/SP?? The 6.x demo is S/390 (I thought)
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
"I'm shocked, shocked!" -- Casablanca I'm reminded of when, working as a contractor in Kingston, I found in the VM/XA SP 2 version of DIRECTXA that a table lookup routinely yielded a null pointer
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Drew Derbyshire
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Greetings to everyone who has just arrived and arrived when we announced
Hello! (wearing my assistant list management hat) Would all of you confirm that your settings work? Would those of you who want their settings changed please contact me off list. And Dave M, you get
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Gregg Levine
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Re: Networking first needs (was Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP)
Firstly often on VM/370 in order when you try and "fix it" you uncover a whole leaning tower of Pisa of missing bits of code. I wonder where you read that. The REXX on VM/370 is solid. It may appear
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Dave Wade
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Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP.
Yes, Standard Pascal is open source compiler package. It is possible to build RELAYV2 pascal files into execute for VM R6 system. Also I can port it to OpenVMS version and Linux platforms with JNet or
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Timothy Stark
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Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP.
FWIW, Bernd Oppolzer over on IBM-MAIN has been promoting his substantial updates to the Stanford Pascal package for a few years now. He even has a version working on MVS3.8j and VM/CMS. If the Pascal
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pjfarley3
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