On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 14:53:19 -0500, Paul Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:

>If you had a 3270 emulator that was able to switch to an
>EBCDIC version of ANSI X3.64, you should be able to run
>microemacs under TSO this way. There should probably
>be some standard way of the software signaling to the
>terminal emulator that it is switching between 3270 and
>EBCDIC ANSI.

Actually, if you simply recompile pdos/generic/bios.c as a
z/OS Unix executable, you should be able to run that
bios (pseudobios) executable instead of exec pgm=bios
in batch, and then if you log on with this:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=unix-direct-login-zos-shell

you should be able to use the provided microemacs for
z/PDOS-generic

The fba1b1.vhd EBCDIC FAT32 disk file would just be
another file on z/OS Unix.

I don't know if z/OS Unix programs use the same calling
convention as MVS (ie OS linkage), as that is a requirement.

Although even then, that could likely be worked around at
the pseudobios level (bios.c) with appropriate startup code.

If someone is interested in that particular configuration, I
could work with them such that I provide code (and makefile),
they do the building/testing (and report any issues to me).

BFN. Paul.

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