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Re: zeros galore

kerravon86 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:23:41 GMT

... Random numbers are generated by DS. DS in combination with INITOBJ forces those random numbers to zero. I was expecting the "FILLER" keyword to equally

Re: zeros galore

Gerhard Postpischil — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:55:38 GMT

... No, they weren't. You asked for zeros, which are not generated by DS. ... That's so you can tell you're looking at fillers, rather than real data. ... And

zeros galore

kerravon86 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:39:13 GMT

... I've now had a chance to try this, and also use INITOBJ to get the DS areas identified. First of all INITOBJ is a 4160 byte file, as I was wondering how

Re: progress

kerravon86 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:03:25 GMT

... They say the second sign of madness is hair on your palm. (pause) And that the first sign is looking for it. BFN. Paul.

Re: progress

kerravon86 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:05:24 GMT

... So did you find a way of implementing the change without making the mess you talked of? ... Thanks. ... Cool. I should seriously consider doing the final

Re: progress

Gerhard Postpischil — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:44:15 GMT

... And it wouldn't work because both the print and punch routines are optional, and may not get called, and couldn't tell they're looking at a filler line.

Re: progress

Gerhard Postpischil — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:02:12 GMT

... Talking to yourself is always a bad sign I've got the DS code running with a DC XLnnn'0', but want to do a few more tests to check for special cases.

Re: progress

kerravon86 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:13:35 GMT

... This wouldn't work, as it would be after the printable character recognition has already taken place, which would mean it produced a different result from

Re: sort

kerravon86 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:11:56 GMT

... Ok, so we have confirmed that that is the source code matching the load module we use, already? So it's a matter of going through those 260 files looking

Re: sort

Gerhard Postpischil — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:01:14 GMT

... Assembling and linking produces a sort program that successfully runs the supplied tests, but not serious work. And the intent is to provide device

Re: sort

kerravon86 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:48:29 GMT

... Ok, I've found what is presumably the code: C:\scratch\os360\mnt\cdrom\OS360\srclibs\sm023>dir IERRCO00* Volume in drive C is S3A6258D001 Volume Serial

Re: sort

Gerhard Postpischil — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:45:54 GMT

... It's interesting how different installations used different approaches. In our case (AMS) all the upgrades were free; our 65 had only Memorex DASD, and I

Re: sort

PeterH — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:08:34 GMT

... Nope, we used PPs for sort/merge and other, similar functions, even though the OS and its 3330-1 support, but possibly not the 3330-11 support, was *free*.

Re: progress

yvette hirth — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:37:00 GMT

... thanks for the info, Tony! ICTL. can't help but forget *some* things. hey, everybody: on ebay i bought some - i'm not kidding - assembler coding pads!

Re: progress

Gerhard Postpischil — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:26:05 GMT

... Which is irrelevant in this context, as the disassembler doesn't do continuations. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT