Re: COBOL

From: Donald Tees (donald_tees_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/23/04

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    Donald Tees wrote:
    > Robert Wagner wrote:
    >
    >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:09:25 -0500, "TammyBain"
    >> <baint@cityofrochester.gov> wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>> I can't find any documentation on assign statements with -UT- in
    >>> them. Does the 'UT' stand for Unit Tape or Utility Tape?
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> Device-specific assignments are obsolete. Nowadays, ASSIGN statements
    >> take three forms:
    >>
    >> 1. SELECT file ASSIGN TO '/path/file'
    >>
    >> 2. SELECT file ASSIGN TO data-name (which contains /path/file)
    >>
    >> 3. SELECT file ASSIGN TO ddname (environment variable or JCL
    >> containing /path/file)
    >
    >
    > "PRN".
    >
    > Donald
    >
    >

    Not to mention standard-in and standard-out, though I suppose they are
    really "JCL names". Maybe printers are as well. Depends on how you look
    at it. What is the context TamyBain? Platform and compiler?

    Donald

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