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On 26/11/2009, at 9:06 AM, Evan Harris wrote:
My recollection is that on the system/38 the number of records was
available
in DSPFD but that was about it. We wrote an RPG that we got out of
News
34/38 (as it was called at the time) to get the number of records in
a nicer
format but I don't remember why we did it or how (I think the INFDS or
equivalent).
I don't recall the News version but that's the technique I used.
I can't specifically remember if you could do a DSPFD to an outfile
but
somehow I think not; you had to do a print screen I think, hence the
requirement for an RPG program.
DSPFD on S/38 did support outfiles (via the less than intuitive
OUTPUT(*NONE) value) and both the QAFDMBR and QAFDMBRL formats
contained record counts (at least by CPF R8.0) but I think the INFDS
method is likely faster than outfile support--also a lot less code.
Man, I loved that box, it had tons of personality
Yep, my favourite system too. Although OS/400 has the same
underpinnings as CPF I thought it had been messed up by all the menus
and S/36 stuff but I did prefer PDM to the old programmer's menu. Of
course, I'm used to all the differences now--but I ignore the S/36
stuff. Funnily enough, I was looking though old S/38 CL the other day
and found the obj.lib qualified names to look seriously wrong. How we
adjust to changes!
- made you do real
computer thing and had flashing lights to boot.
Yes, the hex status codes encoded as a light array. I used to irritate
my boss when he'd ask what the machine was doing: I'd look at the
lights, mentally convert to hex (e.g., 3f10) and say something like
"Oh, storage directory rebuild in progress--probably take another 15
minutes or so". Of course, I could probably have said anything and he
wouldn't be any wiser; Re-calibrating the tracks on the 8" diskettes
in the magazine, tensioning the springs on the Piccolo drive, setting
the volume control for the whine produced by the 3370 during start-up,
all would likely have produced a response of "Ahh, right-oh then, I'll
leave you to it" and a very strange look.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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