On Fri, 29 May 2015 19:54:20 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >And how much has that dumb decision cost mainframe customers over the >years? Fiasco is the right word. > And IBM could have recovered, rather than compounding the fiasco at the inception of OMVS by making OMVS ASCII based and providing ASCII<-->EBCDIC conversion in the C RTL for Legacy data sets except when fopen() was called with mode="*b". The kernel would have been simpler for omitting autoconversion. (I believe Legacy I/O is not handled by kernel.)
And there would have been no EBCDIC obstacle to porting GNU and other FOSS. Fiasco ** 2. Even yet, I wish IBM would complete the Enhanced ASCII support in the C RTL. Significant omissions are Curses and X11; sockets is already supported. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
