On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:03:36AM -0400, Neale Ferguson wrote: > zArchitecture has PACKA and UNPKA opcodes to pack and unpack decimal. Apart > from CVB/CVD ED/EDMK I don't think there's anything that ties zArchitecture > to EBCDIC (writing to consoles, HMCs etc. do require the correct character > set but that's a different matter). That's why the port of Linux to S/390 > wasn't dogged by character set issues.
I keep putting off reading zPOP because the most advanced box we have here is a 7060. Thanks for the info, Neale. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg
