I have renewed the domain for two years.

My timing was excellent, I snarfed the site 2020-06-26. I was way overdue since my prior snarf was 2012-04-21. A different of 567 bytes between the two dates, so even older backups should be nearly complete. All told about 408 MB.

I dropped him a line a few days/weeks ago, but haven't heard back yet, but that's fairly typical. Any response at all tended to come after a lengthy delay.

I built gcc from source once on a Pi Zero.? It took 5 days elapsed wall clock time.
But it all worked.

When I did register the domain with DENIC, I became a so-called gold
member, and thus the domain was registered for the span of twenty year.

Does this imply that the domain still exists?.

Just got off the phone with "Jenny Angell" at Network Solutions.? Good news!? We have 30 days from 6/30/2020 (for someone) to pay (at least) the 1 year renewal price of $73.98 ($37.99 per year + $35.99 reinstatement fee) to get the bsp-gmbh.com domain restored to the way it was before it went offline.? They are happy to take payment from anyone who wants to make the payment.

Just letting everyone know that this is an option.? "Jenny" emailed me her direct Network Solutions contact information, as the length of time it took on hold to speak to an agent was quite long (about 20 minutes).

Let me know if anyone has any interest in this option.

ScottC

On Tue, 7 Jul 2020, Peter Jansen via groups.io wrote:

Isn't UNSPEC not also a pseudo-variable, so that it can also be used on the left-had
side of an assignment, e.g.:
UNSPEC ( CHR ) = CODE ;

Yep, it does.

Unfortunately, FIXED BIN(15) is half word,
i.e. two bytes in PL/1 F.

My guess

UNSPEC ( CHR ) = CODE

convert just the most significant CODE byte, leading
to a wonderful ZERO character.

If I got it right, this routine should do the trick:

ECHAR:
PROCEDURE ( CODE ) RETURNS(CHARACTER(1));
DCL CODE FIXED BIN(15);
DCL CHR CHARACTER(1);
DCL B BIT(16);
B = UNSPEC(CODE);
UNSPEC(CHR)=SUBSTR(B,9,8);
RETURN ( CHR );
END ECHAR;

Wondering if there are better ways.

Peppe.

Isn't UNSPEC not also a pseudo-variable, so that it can also be used on the left-had
side of an assignment, e.g.:
UNSPEC ( CHR ) = CODE ;

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well, hopefully the server is still up, and another snarf can be done, if we only knew the IP....

-- 
Drew Derbyshire

"A little voice inside my head said don't look back,
 You can never look back . . ."                 -- Don Henley

Locations to download the TK3 CD image:

Original location posted on Volker's site:?

ftp://www.cbttape.org/pub/cdimages/MVS_Turnkey_Volker_V3.zip

ScottC

Refs:

Also, I recently uploaded Volker's cookbook zip over on the turnkey-mvs forum in the FILES area for those interested. CBT still has the original Volker CD with TK3 and the original JCL in it. Info in the TK3 Archive (or some name like that) over there.