===== IBM system 34 SSP command ===

[Paul Tykodi]

Hi Fred,

I subscribe to a mailing list called midrange-l hosted at midrange.com. It
is monitored by people who most likely would know the answer to your
question so I forwarded your question to the list. Here is the information,
which was returned. I hope it helps with your project.

date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 13:00:09 -0500
from: "Douglas Handy" 
subject: Re: FW: IBM system 34 SSP command

Paul/Fred,

> After typing these commands, I was expecting
> > something should appear on the CRT but nothing
> > arrived, neither a list of files, nor an error
> > message, even if I had to wait few seconds before
> > the computer returns me the hand...


In case it wasn't clear from Mark's response, under SSP by default 
Output from certain utilities including $LABEL goes to a printer (typically
spooled).  At any time in a session you can issue SYSLIST CRT to cause
future output to redirect back to your terminal, or SYSLIST PRINTER to
revert back to printed output.  Using SYSLIST CRT is somewhat like 
piping DOS output to the MORE command.  You get a screenful of information 
then it pauses for you to pres Enter, then you get another screenful of
data.  You cannot scroll the data.  Unlike MORE, the pipe isn't done on a
per command basis; using SYSLIST remains in effect until you change it again
(or sign off).

If you don't want each line of data to be truncated after 75 
characters, use SYSLIST CRT,FOLD instead.

> I don't really understand what they mean by the verb
> > DISPLAY in the OCL statement guide. Does it mean
> > DISPLAY on the CRT ? DISPLAY on the PRINTER ?
> DISPLAY
> > in a file ?... grrrr....


DISPLAY is not a valid OCL statement.  DISPLAY is the name of one of 
the DFU procedures, to view a file in read-only mode.  Other DFU procedures 
included ENTER or UPDATE or LIST.  DISPLAY is similar to the LISTDATA
command in i5/OS.

Doug

Best Regards,

/Paul
--
Paul Tykodi
Principal Consultant
TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC

> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:21:52 +0100
> From: "Frederic BOSSU" <F5INL at wanadoo.fr>
> Subject: ===== IBM system 34 SSP command ===
> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know a way of listing the files of a
> diskette or a disk
> drive of a System 34 ? I tried the following SSP
> commands (normally used
> on S/36 computer), but it doesn't seem to work ...
> 
> //LOAD $LABEL
> //RUN
> //DISPLAY LABEL-ALL,UNIT-F1
> //END
> 
> After typing these commands, I was expecting something
> should appear on
> the CRT but nothing arrived, neither a list of files,
> nor an error
> message, even if I had to wait few seconds before the
> computer returns me
> the hand...
> 
> I don't really understand what they mean by the verb
> DISPLAY in the OCL
> statement guide. Does it mean DISPLAY on the CRT ?
> DISPLAY on the
> PRINTER ? DISPLAY in a file ?... grrrr....
> 
> Merry X-mas to all, and thank you for your help.
> Fred.
>