On 01/17/2018 01:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
We might as
well all contribute.
Back in college in 1969
I used to have a tiny portable manual card punch.
An acquaintance used it to punch /* in the first two columns of his
punchcard based utility bills.?? (those characters have special meaning
to 360 JCL.? They have multiple punches per column, so it required
making a punch, then backspacing to make the other punch(es))
/* = end of data set
/& = end of job
One wonders how a S/360 "C" compiler might deal with this. Preceding it
with a space might do the trick.
--Chuck