Re: New meets old

On 6/17/2025 2:07 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

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())

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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?
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Normally, once an open file gets to EOF, it stays in that state until
fseek(2) (or equivalent) is called.

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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 ?

You would need physical connectivity and a driver.
A quick googling on VAX punched card reader points to
CR11 card reader connected to a UNIBUS card.
So I doubt it.
But DCL still got $ DECK and $ EOD.  :-)

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

No idea.
Arne