On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 14:38, Farley, Peter x23353 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you know of a specific program or macro in the package that exhibits this > failure? Or have a link to any public discussion of the issue that describes > the mis-translations? > > I DL'd the tgz file directly from Stanford and browsed a few sources at > random, but I didn't see any "weird" characters. One of the mail-related > scripts I reviewed seemed to have legitimate square bracket pairs, so maybe > it isn't that particular issue?
I did much the same, and noticed that in the listing files there seems to have been some post processing done to (among other things) generate text boxes For example, in Mainframe\GS.MIL\MILTEN.SOURCE\MSVC there is a line starting with *box which in the matching listing Assemblies\Milten\MIL#MSVC.txt generates a box made mostly of X'FE' for the horizontal lines, 9F for the vertical, and the four corners are BF, DC, BE, and BB. This is neither ASCII nor EBCDIC in any dialect I recognize, but all the box characters have been uniquely translated, so that may well also be true for any unusual characters in the actual source lines. I doubt that the long-standing claim that the Wylbur source is trashed is completely invented, but things certainly *look* salvageable at first glance. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
