On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:45 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

// had a very different meaning in IBM JCL. It's a sequence
indicating that a command follows, and I have a suspicion that it's
related to a prompt.

oh, believe me, I typed enough JCL to know. I was always just so amused by the dd command that when I first saw // in C++, I had to wonder. It's a question that's been banging around in my head for several decades ...

thanks!