17 Jan
2018
17 Jan
'18
3:55 p.m.
> 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))
On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
/* = 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.
Yes, it would, but how would you get 100% compliance wiht no mistakes from
PROGRAMMERS?
A 360 s'posedly COULD be told to ignore, or to respond to something else,
but that wasn't usually available.
Accordinglyly, when we needed to use a 360 to duplicate a deck that had
JCL cards, we would turn the source/data deck upside down. (hope that it
didn't have '/' in column 80?)