On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:48:01 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: > >Don't hate EBCDIC, be amazed at the ability >to work with EBCDIC, ASCII, and Unicode all on one >system. > EBCDIC is easy enough to use. It's just too difficult to avoid. The OS is biased. A fair operating system would let me NFS mount my Solaris data sets xlat(N) and live in ASCII, with no funky tagging of files or autoconversion. Let me tag and autocovert my Legacy data sets when I need the facility.
Even as programmers can operate on the Legacy side and deal with ASCII only when necessary, I'd like to operate in ASCII and deal with EBCDIC only when necessary. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
