Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!whv From: asjoshi@PHOENIX.PRINCETON.EDU (Amit S. Joshi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: (none) <8909202121.AA03959@jade.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: <8909281416.AA02454@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 28 Sep 89 14:16:07 GMT Sender: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion ListReply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 50 Approved: Since they are moderated Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <8909230502.AA17681@jade.berkeley.edu> In article <8909230502.AA17681@jade.berkeley.edu> you write: >>Subject: (none) >>From: FEATS@VTVM1.BITNET >>Date: 20 Sep 89 18:12:49 GMT - <8909202121.AA03959@jade.berkeley.edu> >>Organization: The Internet >> >>I am fairly new to the world of channel programming and would like to >>gather some reference material on the subject. I have tried to read > >I am replying because our news server is down. I have found little of >much use. Struble and Rudd, along with most other standard texts, give >a description of BASIC channel programming, but the real vagaries -- the >commands special to each device -- are contained only in the component >descriptions, so far as I know. The fact is that IBM is discouraging >anyone other than vendors from doing CCW programming. > >The question is: are you interested in old style (370/SP) or new style (370/XA) >programming? I think I have some stuff on the latter (IBM internal instruction >material which is unclassified), which I can xerox and send you if you are >willing to reimburse me for the cost. I am not sure where it is at the >moment, but I am off to Houston for a three-month system programming contract, >and should be unearthing it this weekend. > >If you are interested, E-mail me and I shall advise you of what I have and >how long it is when I find it. I warn you that I may be a bit slow in >responding, however. > >Sincerely, >Robert A. West I saw this note. I would appreciate if you could send me a copy too. I would be glad to pay the charges for postage and copying etc. Thanks, My address is: Amit Joshi, 558 Beverly road, Teaneck New Jersey. Thanks, Amit Joshi -- Amit Joshi BITNET | Q3696@PUCC.BITNET USENET | {seismo, rutgers}\!princeton\!phoenix\!asjoshi "There's a pleasure in being mad... which none but madmen know!" - St.Dryden