From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 14753 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2023 00:20:32 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 22 Apr 2023 00:20:32 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C21241241; Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:20:30 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1682122830; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=kIRk1XFfvO5tiMZgLNmrXCHPIiUXi5VHT6cKsOuwQh0=; b=OY72Jeaa2Na/t5OV9TA7RgYhaOhMkjxpSbgmSxnoro1qgjzv3EKp2kj3VqtM4Qcfiw1zDP cys1rh9wgLkCMrT5/RnrQEX0no/tZlJKAl+uSW+izWRH/5WnsPSi8FI6TCgSGGDee/Hj7V 8n2mWoyhKCij7+EB3ojk6VwKE7eFJRU= Received: from mail-4319.protonmail.ch (mail-4319.protonmail.ch [185.70.43.19]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 360F14122A for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2023 10:20:16 +1000 (AEST) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:20:06 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1682122813; x=1682382013; bh=kIRk1XFfvO5tiMZgLNmrXCHPIiUXi5VHT6cKsOuwQh0=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date: Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID:Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=fAK08IeEDzMSn51jSu89fCZji4BJP+RFgcXkJsKDVEvlSwjHv6oS71KxMBL2mfJGQ KYPEQf0g1g4faUWaDZpOjdkGide7JQcSc7OHbdzKA1dX1FLbFExcJnxi5E/4Y6BFqH 69k2tuxrMGyvSZl1oCmnuJDLAItIhrO8DlMlisYvFrlNzn8X4k5WEzdadkFkByjQMh bJWk/MXLJo9Vhes9cE9DdGlkUUzSOWkY+//MpLWgNBAOC0U5YjpMOnofL23NrEP3YM DkjCxsDlwIyoyWLFPABMdjd3Ad2gvlxkUrBT7/L/hx5zzeeYojzb+ARnfGzEHFVUZB yj1JrPgN0qUKA== To: COFF Message-ID: Feedback-ID: 35591162:user:proton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: 5KMMDZU34YLQ6SFR3222DKCJNUVQTEIR X-Message-ID-Hash: 5KMMDZU34YLQ6SFR3222DKCJNUVQTEIR X-MailFrom: segaloco@protonmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] IBM OS ANSI Standard COBOL May 15, 1974 Update Docs List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: segaloco via COFF Reply-To: segaloco I've just today received a COBOL manual I ordered to find quite the nice su= rprise. The manual itself is: "IBM OS Full American National Standard COBOL". It i= s listed as File No. S360-24, Order No. GC28-6396-4. On the back of the fi= rst page this is noted as the "Fifth Edition (September 1973)" and that the= current edition "is a reprint of GC28-6396-3, incorporating changes releas= ed in TNL GN28-1002." Copyright year chain ends at 1972. However, in addition to this manual are three addenda: The first is a memo from Tim S. "Systems Analyst", addressed to and cc'd to= a few folks, providing an up-to-date listing (as of March 12*, 1976) of IB= M System Reference Library materials. The attachment includes, among other= things, documents for S/360, S/370, OS/360, BOS/360, OS/VS, and programmin= g and diagnostic utilities. Each reference includes a volume number and an= "SRL", the definition I couldn't find, but presumably just a catalog numbe= r of some kind. The second is a scan of a 31 page, hand-written document titled "COBOL Comp= iler Release 2.2" providing information on the "March 11, 1979, Release 2.2= of the COBOL compiler...IBM's implementation of the ANSI 1974 Standard for= COBOL. The previous Release 1.1 implemented the 1968 ANSI Standard." The= document goes on to detail numerous changes between these revisions. Lastly is a Technical Newsletter bearing the same File and Order numbers as= the full manual, but with a date of May 15, 1974 and newsletter number of = GN28-1048. This page bears a copyright chain out to 1974 and is simply a s= et of replacement pages for the manual, as was common at the time. The tex= t indicates that all changes are denoted with a vertical bar printed to the= left of the change, so this essentially is a diff between the Fifth Editio= n manual above and...wait for it..."Fourth Edition (May 1972); Fifth Editio= n (September 1973)". Strangely the copyright notice on the back still indi= cates the same edition, but adds reference back to the Fourth Edition as we= ll. Strange, one of life's little mysteries? In any case, the copyright c= hain here is only out to 1973. Never sure how much that means at any given= instant. In any case, I couldn't find any evidence in the manual-proper o= f previous such updates being applied, in other words, no vertical bars spo= tted flipping through the pages at least. Both the replacement pages and the catalog are still stapled together, and = the manual-proper still contains the pages (that I spot checked) slated for= replacement. It seems the original was even bound itself at one point, in= dicated by the ghost of a glued spine still lingering on the end of the pag= es, but both the replacement pages and manual itself also have 3-hole punch= es and are bound in an Acco binder. If the manual had a true cover, it's l= ong gone. Figured I'd share some of those details in case anything in this is in want= of further illumination. For the record, the Sixth and Seventh editions o= f this same document appear to be on archive.org. I haven't plumbed their = depths searching for evidence of aforementioned diff pages, they're probabl= y just scans of complete published copies. So all of this for me at least begs the question, is there any sort of equi= valent to TROFF sources for documents from the Big Blue? Truth be told, I = only ordered this to have a paper COBOL reference on hand, if one should ev= er need such a thing. If there are such document sources, I'd happily add = "patching" them to produce a restoration of this to my studies. At the ver= y least the two smaller addenda will get a scan here pretty soon. - Matt G. P.S. While my main focus is Bell UNIX documentation, I do peek around for s= tuff like this time to time, but I'm much less inclined to spring for somet= hing without some functional value to me. That said, I'm looking for docum= ents all the time, so if anyone has any tips on stuff that isn't well prese= rved in the public record that I should add to my searches time to time, I'= m happy to keep an eye out. I'm coming to quite enjoy finding things and g= etting them on the record.