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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:14:40 -0700
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD
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Charles Forsyth wrote:
>> JCL == Java Control Language?
>>
>
> the Job Control Language for System/360
>
Yeah, I kind of knew that ;-) I was trying to come
up with the best joke I could. If this is not it, I have
no clue what could be funny about JCL ;-)
> bundles are implemented by here documents,
> and the end marker for the document must not appear
> in the data, and IBM JCL syntax (even if it were strictly correct)
> was unlikely to appear on Unix systems
> but would still have a cheery familiarity to some.
> the elaborate DD statement defines file associations for a job and
> can manipulate permanent files (commonly used with IEFBR14)
>
Now this does make sense.

Thanks,
Roman.