Cobol - Re: IBM Mainframe - Batch Job to Generate Data Set List?

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Re: IBM Mainframe - Batch Job to Generate Data Set List?

Alistair

2007-02-01, 6:55 pm

On 27 Jan, 16:08, docdw...@panix.com () wrote:
> In article <1169906735.918646.250...@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>,
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> Alistair <alist...@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> I don't recall his geography being specified, Mr Maclean, but it most
> certainly is possible that he spent time in the North American state of
> Virginia, certainly.
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> <http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.ad...tohistory=&a...>
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> (in order to repent for your provincial notions about dialect you might
> wish to consider how certain aspects of Elisabethan English were still to
> be found in areas of the Appalachian Mountains as recently as a
> half-century back (dialects, in general, are fading due to the onslaught
> of radio-/television-speak)... oh, I *cannot* resist...
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> ... a bit of isolation made it difficult, it seems, for even diligent
> Americans to wash out that particular linguistic stain.... errrr, strain.
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> DD

I dod know that US English is closer to the Pilgrim Fathers' English
than current UK English (especially spelling). I didn't know that tha
US has only progressed since 1950...

2007-02-01, 9:55 pm

In article <1170359276.738066.31630@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Alistair <alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:

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>I didn't know that tha
>US has only progressed since 1950...

That depends on whom one asks, Mr Maclean... some say it's been downhill
ever since (insert time-point here).

DD

Howard Brazee

2007-02-05, 6:55 pm

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 01:39:50 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@panix.com () wrote:

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>That depends on whom one asks, Mr Maclean... some say it's been downhill
>ever since (insert time-point here).

Since forever, each generation has been worse than the previous with
doomsday in sight - while each century gets better than the previous
with paradise in sight.

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