[TUHS] Dash options
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Nov 29 07:56:08 AEST 2017
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Clem Cole wrote:
> Hmm, so was dot, which is what TSS and MTS used. DEC was using it as
> the <base>.<ext> separator, but I think Ken could have used it as easily
> at the time since the idea of <ext> and exposing semantics of what the
> file was in the name was foreign to UNIX (although was used in other
> systems as we know).
OS/360's JCL used "." (partitioned datasets?) such as SYS1.WATFIV.blah and
so on.
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