Thanks to Bill, Walter and Stan for the information.  I love this list!

This whole issue brings up something that has been on my mind for awhile.  
Ever since the November, 2001 announcement of the HP3000 end of life, people 
have speculated and debated about how long HP planned the demise of MPE 
before announcing it.  It has always seemed to me that HP's practice in the 
years leading up to the announcement of enhancing the OS, but not updating 
the manuals to reflect those changes was indicative of a belief that the end 
was near.  Once the distribution of manuals had become almost exclusively 
electronic, keeping the manuals current should have been relatively easy, 
but HP seemed to walk away from its documentation well in advance of the EOL 
announcement.

John Clogg


>From: "Stan Sieler" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: John Clogg <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Intrinsic Documentation
>Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:12:59 -0800
>
>Re:
> > fragment of COBOL code that called an intrinsic named HP_BYTE_XOR.  This
>
>Technically, these routines are not intrinsics.
>They're routines in the COBOL compiler library.
>
>Intrinsics are documented in the Intrinsics Reference Manual,
>and have "headers" in either SPLINTR.PUB.SYS (for CM)
>or SYSINTR.PUB.SYS (for NM).
>
>That aside, I'm also glad to hear about them!
>
>I've added info about them to our CSEQ (Calling SEQuence) utility,
>and workalikes to our INTRINS/iX package.
>
>thanks,
>
>Stan
>--
>Stan Sieler
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