Yep. And its useless. Joe
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 1:39 PM David Spiegel <dspiegel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Joe, > I GUNZIPd and UNTARd WYLBUR via CYGWIN on Windows 10 Pro. > > Regards, > David > > On 2020-07-08 14:25, Joe Monk wrote: > > Here is some info from a while back ... > > > > There is definitely interest, but the UCLA version, instead of being > > offloaded on the mainframe in AWS or Transmit format, was converted to > > ASCII, losing some needed characters, and was then compressed as a tar > > file. The result won't unpack under Windows; unpacked files have > > unacceptable directory and member names. At this point I'm not aware of > > anyone who has successfully assembled any component. If you search the > > internet for Wylbur, you'll find a discussion group, with membership > > partly overlapping this and the IBM-MAIN groups, according to which some > > people are fairly close to a zOS version. I just got my files unpacked a > > few weeks ago, and will be using a REXX/Regina program to convert them > > to something I can actually process under MVS 3.8j. > > > > And please, don't try to upload the tar/tgz file - it's useless in its > > current form. > > > > > https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhercules-390.yahoogroups.narkive.com%2FygahqIHc%2Fwylbur-orvyl-milten-and-friends&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18bdfcd062254ca256d008d8236c669e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637298295792505848&sdata=ybsKDKHqNbzz9n5xhKEcwGIFCKNu3RrbuiC1hbvaPB8%3D&reserved=0 > > > > Joe > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 1:15 PM Paul Gilmartin < > > 0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 09:18:01 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >> > >>> I would *think* -- perhaps I am being naïve -- that one could come up > >> with an automated fix for that that would do a 90% job, and then fix the > >> last 10% manually. > >>> How many lines of source is it (approximately) and in a few words what > >> was the mistranslation error? The usual stuff with braces, brackets and > >> such? > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> Fromf Joe Monk > >>> Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 4:13 AM > >>> > >>> Theres a big problem with the stanford distribution that makes it > >> unusable. > >>> Basically, when they did the ASCII<>EBCDIC translation, some characters > >> got > >>> mistranslated. So, it will not assemble. > >>> > >> "they"? > >> > >> What CCSIDs did they presume? What should it have been? > >> Iconv is your friend. Translate back with CCSIDs to undo what they did, > >> then re-translate with the correct pair. > >> > >> -- gil > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > . > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
