Re: Help me remember, please
Yeah, but that's because upper management wants to keep all the bribes for themselves. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire
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#5804
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Re: Help me remember, please
[email protected]> wrote: The 2305 was a fixed-head disk, but many people called it a drum. The early 1980s would have been quite late in the game for buying a 2305. I'd guess what you were being
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Tony Harminc
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#5803
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Re: Sad news
Ross, Very sad news. I never met Bob, only conversed on here and in private. His parting will leave a great hole in my heart. His work on APL especially was amazing.. Can we arrange any kind of group
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Dave Wade
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#5802
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Re: Diskmap and close parenthesis ")"
XEDIT is such a CMS command, one can code things behind de closing ), and the PROFILE XEDIT can exploit it.? My PROFILE XEDIT did do this. -- Kris Buelens
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kris.buelens@...
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#5801
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Help me remember, please
Hello, While I was the lead systems programmer at OCF Research Facility, my boss and I went to lunch with a salesperson who was trying to sell us a drum (2305, I thought). This would have been 1981
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Bertram Moshier
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#5800
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Re: Sad news
Sad news indeed, and a terrible loss. I knew him over zoom through his involvement with the brexx, crexx and apl projects on vm/370ce. He was a nice and funny man. We have lost an enormous amount of
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[email protected]
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#5799
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Re: Sad news
Man, I am so sorry to hear this.? I loved working with Bob when I was at CA.? He was one of the most talented and smartest people I've met.? He will be missed.
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DeWayne Thomas
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#5798
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Sad news
I bring sad tidings. Long-time VMer, SHARE VM stalwart, and member of this group Bob Bolch passed away on May 19th. Bob's brother Mike informed me that he died from an aggressive cancer. Bob had a
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Ross Patterson
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#5797
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Re: DIRECTMAP issue
[email protected]> wrote: The negative interaction between BREXX and ECPSVM is extremely timing dependent. The ECPSVM DISP2 instruction damages certain floating point registers for the
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Ross Patterson
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#5796
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Re: SYSIPL macro in DMKSYS
Hello Mark, When I woked for Owens Corning Fiberglas Research Center as it lead systems programmer, I wrote a program to backup the spool space every hour. We didn't use it often, but it saved some
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Bertram Moshier
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#5795
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Re: Diskmap and close parenthesis ")"
Many of the CMS commands, provided by IBM are documented to have that optional close parenthesis. Many of those I have talked with don't use it, and don't expect it to work. I have seen a very few
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5794
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Re: DIRECTMAP issue
Have to admit I am puzzled, as I have run DISKMAP EXEC today, several times without problems, and have the following: [xmas@vm370dev pdf]$ grep -Ei 'ecpsvm'
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5793
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Re: SYSIPL macro in DMKSYS
You can see another discussion of the sequence here: /g/h390-vm/message/4517 This is kind of late in the game for us, but provides some background on the sequencing and why. See page
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5792
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Re: CP SET PFnn COPY ccu
Decades ago I did some work with 3270 printers.? A printer is nothing more than another I/O addressable device.? Printing a 3270 monitor's screen contents was a local control unit function.? It was
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Harold Grovesteen
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#5791
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Re: CP SET PFnn COPY ccu
Dave Wade wrote: Oh well. It was worth a shot. I wouldn't know. You would know more about that than me. [...]
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Fish Fish
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#5790
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Re: CP SET PFnn COPY ccu
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Dave Wade
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#5789
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Re: CP SET PFnn COPY ccu
Dave Wade wrote: [...] Have you tried doing a devinit? I am not familiar with Herc's existing 3287 support, but this sounds like a likely bug to me. I myself can't see the use of a 3287 AT ALL, let
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Fish Fish
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#5788
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Re: CP SET PFnn COPY ccu
Fish, Jay, Bertram, I really must learn to read things properly. So if I 1. Define a device in the Hercules config as a 3287 rather than a 3270, 2. Set the matching device in DMKRIO as a 3287 then
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Dave Wade
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#5787
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Re: CP SET PFnn COPY ccu
Jay, I defined it was defined as a 3284, but I now tried a 3287 and it still won¡¯t connect. I assume like a 3270 display it should connect before VM is loaded¡ ¡ but it doesn¡¯t Dave Sent:
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Dave Wade
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#5786
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Re: CP SET PFnn COPY ccu
I would expect you'd need to define it in DMKRIO as a 3287, then. I don't have PCOMM, so can't try using it to connect a printer. I haven't tried pr3287 on Linux either. [email protected]> wrote:
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Jay Maynard
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#5785
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