"File types"

On 8/28/2006 at 8:14 PM Allison wrote: Yeah, but ASM was just trying to get away with using a single FCB to specify all three files. So you get A:ASM FOO.AAZ or some such to do what you want. ASM is an aberration. That's another thing--command syntax that's definitely from the mini/micro convention. Up until CP/M, I'd always done something like ASM IN=FOO OBJECT=FOO2 LIST=FOO3 I really DON'T like switch-type command-line structure. OT tidbit: With CDC 6000 FORTRAN the idea was that the compiler would read the first statement of the inpjut then determine what needed to be done. Most newbies were puzzled by it being called RUN. But you could stack COMPASS assembly or FORTRAN source in your input deck and simply say "RUN." AFAIK, it was never extended to other languages, but it was pretty neat. Cheers, Chuck