xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
...
>I had to have the MF people export the data to my FP app with 
>the last field defines a 99999 ?? [I think that was it - the
>programming was in Links which I think was a front end to COBOL
>on a Burroughs A-10 - which was essentially a Unix system at it's
>heart - derived from the Sperry machines after the merger and
>acquisition of Arete.

I thought the A-10 derived from the Burroughs Large Systems (e.g.  B-6800
family) which ran Burroughs MCP (Master Control Program), and where the
system was ALGOL based.  My first serioua main frame work was on a
Burroughs B-5500, then I ran their Medium Systems B-2500 -> B-3800 systems
until I quit to race cars full time.

>> More fun though was a FP customer running on a Radio Shack
>> Model 16 where disk problems created shifts in the filepro
>> files where the key and data files would get out of sequence
>> (e.g. all fields past a certain record would be shifted one
>> byte to the left or some such, changing repeatedly through the
>> files). Naturally the key and data files didn't shift at the
>> same places (and there weren't any backups of course :-).
>
>I remember having to fix some of those too.

It was a tedious process of multiple fix passes, each time examining the
file to find where the next shift occurred.

Bill
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