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

A spool fine do a line feed to a channel that did not have a hold in it?
I was once a mainframe operator, but I really do not know what that
means.

Overall, what is the As400 or iSeries market? What kind of companies
still use it? It seems like most programmers use FREE form RPG which has
different opcodes than RPG400.


Thank you,
Nancy
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:13:59 -0800 Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:

No, but I remember the tape drive on a S/36 (or maybe an S/38) -
when
loading a new tape, you had to leave several inches of spare tape
hanging
down and then press the button to start the vacuum, so it could suck
the
loose tape end into the machine to spool it correctly...


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2) <
TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do you remember those S/38 printers that had a paper tape loop for

the

line feed stops? Have you ever left the lid open on one of those

and

then had a spool file do a line feed to a channel that didn't have

a

hole in it? And watched a whole box-full of green-bar paper shoot

across

the room in a graceful arc?

Trevor Briggs
Analyst/Programmer
Lincare, Inc.

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