Re: New meets old

On 2025-06-16, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

On 6/16/2025 9:28 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:15:39 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

sys.stdout.writelines(sys.stdin.readlines())
sys.stdout.writelines(sys.stdin.readlines())

 
Some interesting semantics going on there. How do you continue reading
after encountering EOF? How does it reset the EOF condition to let you get
the second lot of data?
 
Normally, once an open file gets to EOF, it stays in that state until
fseek(2) (or equivalent) is called.

>
You put 3 decks of punched cards in the card reader.
>

The fact VMS supported punched card devices always amuses me as it
clearly shows VMS with one foot in a long-obsolete era and the other
foot in a more modern era.

Did punched card support ever make it to Alpha ?

BTW, did VMS ever have paper tape reader (and/or writer) support ?

Simon.

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