RE: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle

First, it might help to either include the whole message or at least to
<snip> the relevant portions to which a reply is made.

On the S/3 F1 and F2 did not refer to function keys but, rather, disk units:
Fixed 1 (where the operating system (SCP) resided). It took a CE to access
the fixed drives.

R1 and R2 were Removable drives (5444). They, as well as the Fixed drives,
had a whopping 5 Mb IIRC.

D1-D4 were "high capacity" drives. The 5445's looked like cake layers, had,
I think, a 10 mb capacity, and 5-6 heads, which moved in unison. Later (I
forget the model number) the 5445's were replaced by a really high capacity
drive that reminded me, when in silhouette, of the Starship Enterprise. The
Dx drives were removable (swappable).

The SCP didn't, however, check the swaps very well (if at all). We had four
drives. One database was so large (for the time) that it took one entire
disk, a second disk to hold the db+added records, a third drive to hold the
sorted file (Addrout). Had an operator get ahead of himself and swapped out
one of the drives too early (before prompted). The OS didn't detect it and
the resulting report was a mess. Took my boss and me the rest of the day to
figure out what happened.

Now, wanna talk about something really fun? 1403 N1.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
The value of history is not scientific but moral. By liberalizing the mind,
by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, history enables to
control not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it
prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to
foretell the future. -Carl Becker