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Thanks Chris, I thought I had copies of pretty much all the Fortran manuals on Bitsavers, but I must have missed that one Tim
On Saturday, 21 November 2020, 9:38:04 pm AEDT, cjar1950 via groups.io <cjar1950@...> wrote:
Tim, If you look at pp 65-69 of http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/fortran/SC28-6852-1_OS_FORTRAN_H_Pgmr_Jun72.pdf, you will see the published definitions for Fortran H. . . Chris -- <cjar1950@...> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 04:13:30 -0600
"Joe Monk" <joemonk64@...> wrote: > "Did the S360 have a paper tape reader? I had never heard of one, but then > I was an applications programmer/analyst - never a systems programmer, and > I never knew much about mainframe hardware" > > Yep. The model 2671 paper tape reader along with the 2822 controller. > > Joe > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:53 PM Tim via groups.io <aardvarkguard-hercules= > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Saturday, 21 November 2020, 3:14:06 pm AEDT, Greg Price < > > procegrog@...> wrote: > > > > > > On 2020-11-21 6:57 AM, Tim via groups.io wrote: > > >> in FORTRAN the card punch is unit 7 > > >Ah yes - that sounds familiar - thanks Tim! > > > > >> > > >> I wouldn't have a clue about the paper tape reader > > >I was thinking it might be 2 if there is such a convention - memories > > >are hazy... > > > > >I think all of those low numbers initially had a conventional assignment. > > > > Did the S360 have a paper tape reader? I had never heard of one, but then > > I was an applications programmer/analyst - never a systems programmer, and > > I never knew much about mainframe hardware > > > > > > >I think VS FORTRAN has or had a customisable upper unit number limit. > > >Applications would crash off if they tried to use a unit number higher > > >than was configured.? We just used to make it 99, IIRC. > > > > Yes VS Fortran did have a customisable upper unit number. I found that out > > when the systems guys put in a new version of VS Fortran, and one of our > > programs promptly aborted with an invalid unit number message, or something > > like that. I just looked at some of my old JCL members (which I copied to a > > CD before the mainframe was decommissioned where I used to work) and in one > > of the FORTRAN ones I made a comment that you needed to specify UNTABLE=99 > > in the VSFORTL macro (not that I really know what that means..). > > > > Ever since that occasion, the first thing I did when they put in a new > > version of VS Fortran was to run a small test program that used unit number > > 80! (I can't remember why I didn't use 99 - perhaps 80 was the highest unit > > number we used). > > > > >Cheers, > > >Greg > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > |
