The rules are: Pass it on to five other bloggers, and tell them to open the nearest book to page 56. Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences. The CLOSEST BOOK, NOT YOUR FAVORITE, OR MOST INTELLECTUAL!

Tagged by: El Capitan at Baboon Pirates(OK, here's your post. You can quit making that voodoo doll now.)

OK, here goes...

The Book is:

Command Language Cookbook
For Mainframes, MiniComputers, and PC's

by Hallett German

The fifth sentence(and the subsequent ones):

These techniques could be used by the CLIST programs that generate reports:

• CLIST QSAM facility to obtain the correct records on perform database transactions(such as adding or modifying a record). This can also be used to to generate a customized report.
• Various string operations such as parsing, concatenating, and building arrays.
• Control variables and built-in functions
• Symbolic substitution to generate customized reports

Wow! Exciting, interesting, spellbinding stuff, what? A certified page-turner! Well, you did ask for the closest book. Careful for what you ask for!

Supposed to tag five people, but, nahhhh, everyone's done this one, so play if you want to, but I'm not gonna force anyone...

Except Running Behind from A Disregard For Timekeeping


Him, he needs a little prodding. Unlike me. (ha ha)

Walrilla