RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

Actually, on the S/36, many of the commands that ran a long time 
automatically had a function key (maybe F14) that would automatically 
submit the command to batch.


Rob Berendt
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"Metz, Zak" <Zak_Metz@G1.com>
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Oh please, how often do you accidentally type CALL when you meant SBMJOB. 
Their meaning is obvious. I know a lot of nerds really get off on the *nix 
syntax, but where I live (in the real world) the two aren't confusable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Rich [mailto:james@eaerich.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 2:35 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...
> 
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Metz, Zak wrote:
> 
> > Oops, you forgot to prompt the command to get the syntax right.
> >
> > Oh wait...you can't.
> 
> Actually this is a case where prompting wouldn't have helped. 
>  Prompting
> on the CALL command doesn't help you realize that you left off SBMJOB.
> 
> > > From: Martin Rowe [mailto:martin@dbg400.net]
> > > > Just for reference, using 'at' for one-off tasks like 
> this would be
> > > > easier on *nix systems than cron
> > > >
> > > >  myscript | at 04:00
> > >
> > > Ack, should have been:
> > >
> > >   echo 'myscript' | at 04:00
> 
> James Rich
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