On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:40:14 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >Swing by Rockets ported talks and download and install gmake. Nobody >uses the z/OS make including IBM developers. > It would have been a boon if Unix System services had been ASCII-based rather than EBCDIC, and relied on GNU tools.
>On 14/12/2017 9:58 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >> I wrote my first "makefile" today. Took me some time to understand the >> requirement for tab characters. Having only the ISPF editor (oedit), tab >> characters are not very friendly on 3270 screens. >> There ought to be an RFE here. Tab could be handled cleverly on a 3270 screen. But ISPF is perhaps not the best editor for makefiles or many other UNIXy tools. EBCDIC tab is x'05'. >> GNUMake has an special variable called ".RECIPEPREFIX" that allows >> replacement of the tab character with another character. This does not >> appear to be an option on z/OS. Does z/OS by chance have anything similar, >> perhaps with a different name? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
