take a look at say, the COBOL manual, especially the ASSIGN clause.  This
was quite specifically designed to handle IBM constructs from the 360 days;
so well that you can still find COBOL code with 30 commas in the ASSIGN TO
target.

Tracy (407, 1401 junkie) Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clogg [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:47 AM
> To: Tracy Pierce; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: NYTimes.com Article: For a Hewlett, Merger Raises a Basic
> Fea r
>
>
> Tracy Pierce wrote:
> >That was the strategy when HP invented MPE, which just
> happened ;-) to run
> >IBM JCL.
>
> Huh?  MPE ran IBM JCL?  I've been using MPE for 21 years and
> wasn't aware of
> that feature.  Was this a feature of some of the early
> releases (pre-MPE
> III/Athena), or am I missing something?  Are you referring to RJE?
>

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