Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>]

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>JCL == Java Control Language?

the Job Control Language for System/360

if you follow the link i gave you'll see more.

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)

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From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bundle //GO.SYSIN DD
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:42:30 -0700
Message-ID: <488F5686.6030904@sun.com>

ron minnich wrote:
> more useless crap from memory:
>
> the actual correct usage is
> //GO.SYSIN DD *
>
> but of course the * would make things messy.
>
> See this and realize this stuff is still being taught!
> http://www.coba.unt.edu/itds/courses/bcis3690/bcis3690.ht
So... for the dense ones (like myself), what IS the joke Rob was
referring to? JCL == Java Control Language?

Thanks,
Roman.