The last time I looked the CBT tape had a few OCO programs, but someone may have disassembled and commented all of them by now. I know that Gerhard Postpischil ז״ל, a departed friend and colleague, did so for at least one.
IAC, I know of nothing on the CBT tape requires paying license fees, so no shareware, -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 11:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Don't do this...... Are CBT files shareware or open source? Tony Thigpen Seymour J Metz wrote on 7/19/24 11:23 AM: > Mystery code is often clearer if you assemble it and look at the listing. > > BTW, shareware is not the same as open source. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on > behalf of Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 10:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Don't do this...... > > Found in some shareware code: > > > MVI RO,2 > > Please page down when you think you know what the program was doing. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > elsewhere > RO EQU SEEKO+7,1 > > I finally figured out what was happening when I copied the code from the > PC editor I was using to view the shareware code to a test program in > xedit so I could see what it was actually doing. The character after the > "R" was the letter 'OH', not a 'zero', but the pc editor does not > display a significantly different item for zero and the letter 'O'. > > > > Tony Thigpen
