[TUHS] On computerese

Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) lyndon at orthanc.ca
Tue Sep 17 12:19:17 AEST 2024


Bakul Shah writes:

> > /dd if=...    :-)
>
> That won't work. The data definition JCL statement format
> is more like this:
>
> //<name> DD <parameters>

Yeah, I know. But you can get away with '//dd if= ...' which
was more than enough to give some old timers whiplash the
first time they saw that on a UNIX box :-)

--lyndon


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