Ahh. :-) For the rest of the group (as if it matters) S0C7 meant that a program attempted to place non-numeric data in a numeric field. Computer programs hate that.
If this happens in the middle of the night, the poor programmer on-call usually hears the phone ring. Tom C. >From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: OT: Pedantry (RE: PESO - Farmers Market >Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:12:07 +0100 > >I cheated and Googled it. I didn't do very much IBM mainframe stuff. >Most of my mainframe experience was on ICLs. The 1901T was the first I >used and it had much more readable error messages. ILL.X springs to >mind. You got it when you tried to execute an illegal instruction. >There was an entire alphabet of illegal things you could do. > >http://pink-mouse-productions.com/icl/1900.htm > >I refused to sully myself with JCL having previously used CL and SCL >on ICL 29xx kit. It was a greatly superior control language (derived >from Algol via Pascal). The ICL 2900 series was the high point of >mainframe design. They were exceptionally good machines and VME was >probably the best mainframe operating system ever written. > >http://pink-mouse-productions.com/icl/2900.htm >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VME > >On one IBM project we had to spend a lot of time writing ad hoc >reports and doing different JCL for each one, which was extremely >tedious and long-winded, so over about a week I stayed behind and >wrote rather a good report generator which could be programmed with >about 3 cards or something equally ridiculously efficient, and we >started using that. It made me a hero. > >I also recall an IBM system called CMS that I quite liked, and I later >went on to use AS400s, which were very good. > >-- > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Tom C > > Sent: 01 October 2007 15:53 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: OT: Pedantry (RE: PESO - Farmers Market > > > > I bet you Bob can tell me what an S0C7 (sock7) means. > > > > > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > >From: ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > > >Subject: Re: OT: Pedantry (RE: PESO - Farmers Market > > >Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:16:46 -0400 > > > > > >It was ever so... even back in th olden days when the > > machines took up > > >whole rooms, it always seemed the > > >error message was on a different planet than what was actually >wrong. > > > > > >Fortunately, Tom caught it and resubmitted a really nice photo :) > > > > > >ann > > > > > > > > >Bob W wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>A shot from the market. > > > >> > > > >>http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6477862 > > > >> > > > > > > > >Got a big 404 on that. > > > > > > > >Somebody ought to teach photo.net how to write error > > messages, and the > > > >rudiments of English grammar. Their message is > > > > > > > >"Problem with Your Input > > > >We had a problem processing your entry: > > > >This photo doesn't exist. (The owner has probably deleted it.) > > > >Please back up using your browser, correct it, and resubmit your > > > >entry. " > > > > > > > >I can't begin to count the number of ways in which that is wrong. > > > > > > > >But let me try. > > > > > > > >"Problem with your input" - blame the user > > > > > > > >"We had a problem processing your entry" My entry? Is that > > the same as > > > >my input, or are there 2 problems? Which is it - input or entry? > > > >Besides, I didn't enter anything, and I don't think I provided >any > > > >input. I clicked a link. > > > > > > > >"This photo doesn't exist" - bad grammar. 'This' photo must >exist. > > > >Besides, I asked for a page, not a photo. If the page I asked >for > > > >doesn't exist, don't use 'this'. > > > > > > > >"Please back up using your browser, " Uh? What does that mean? Do >I > > > >have to restore using my browser too? > > > > > > > >"correct it, " - correct my browser? There's something > > wrong with my > > > >browser too? > > > > > > > >"and resubmit your entry" - but you told me you had a problem > > > >processing it. What's changed that I should resubmit it? > > > > > > > >-- > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > > >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > >[email protected] > > >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > > above and > > >follow the directions. > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > > above and follow the directions. > > > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
