Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!fortune!phipps From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: V.2 Job Control Message-ID: <2465@fortune.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 14:16:05 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2465 Posted: Tue Feb 7 14:16:05 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 00:36:23 EST References: <1640@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 28 So the name "job control" is used for a minimal window manager as a "marketing ploy", eh ? That's really strange, because the words "job control" immediately bring to mind //jobname JOB (000649,10,10,200),'your name here',REGION=512K //stepname EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //SYSUT2 DD UNIT=SYSDA,DSN=FOO.BAR,SPACE=(CYL,(5,2)),VOL=SER=USER02 // DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=6400),DISP=(NEW,CATLG) //SYSUT1 DD UNIT=TAPE9,VOL=SER=REL60,LABEL=(,NL),DSN=NEWREL, // DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=2400,DEN=3),DISP=(OLD,KEEP) // which is particularly distasteful, if not abhorrent, to the UNIX community. For the uninitiated, all the above does is copy a single file from a tape reel to disk. (Please, no flaming JCL corrections; it's been over 4 years since I've written any JCL, and good riddance !) -- Clay Phipps -- {allegra,amd70,cbosgd,dsd,floyd,harpo,hpda,ihnp4, megatest,nsc,oliveb,sri-unix,twg,varian,VisiA,wdl1} !fortune!phipps