On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:55:54 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: > >Actually it is C. The intermediate buffer is used to allow the UNICODE >service to translate to ASCII. UNICODE services need to know how much data >is being passed in. The code runs POSIX(ON), XPLINK and is compiled the >ASCII option. > And then the C RTL will further translate it to the "native" EBCDIC. Many ASCII-centric systems treat UTF-8 as practically standard. (But the filenames contain nonportable characters.) Does the caller pass you ASCII, presumed ISO8859-1, UTF-8, or other? Will the files be shared (NFS?) or exported (pax?) to native ASCII systems?
z/OS C, or Dignus? Hmmm... can Dignus programs interface to LE services for this sort of translation? <Sigh\> gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN