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From: VALDIS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Valdis Kletnieks)
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Subject: Re: Writting to the console on MVS system.
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Date: 3 Mar 91 02:36:21 GMT
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On Sat, 2 Mar 91 18:59:12 G+3 <CCA3407%SAKAAU03.BITNET@OHSTVMA.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.E
>     Could anybody out there tell me how to write to the console, terminal,
>on the MVS operating system or can recommends a books or manuals discriping
>the way to do it.

Hmm.. Been a *long* time since I hacked any OS code, but..

To write to the systems console, see the WTO and WTOR macros.
Note that doing this in a large multi-processing environment may be a
Bad Idea, as the systems operator is probably *not* expecting for your
program to communicate with him directly...

To write to the *user* terminal, I think you want the TPUT and TGET (although
this may be a TSO-only rather than an MVS macro...)


                                  Valdis Kletnieks
                                  Computer Systems Engineer
                                  Virginia Polytechnic Institute