Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-06 Thread Agblad Tore
Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard? Richard Troth wrote: > Perl was ported to OE more than a decade ago and saw use on OpenVM and > on OpenMVS (USS). I am not a strong Perl follower, but would be > shocked and saddened to learn that it was no longer viable on USS.

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-05 Thread Spann, Elizebeth (Betsie)
: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard? Hi, Sometimes, I forgot to type the cont parameter using the ping command on a 3215 terminal (example: ping -c 4 ). In 3215 terminals, ping without a count result in a forever command. The unique way to stop it (al least the unique I know

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-04 Thread Shane G
I usually just open another (virtual) terminal and kill the ping. Sounds like you might benefit from defining an alias for ping. Shane ... On Mon, Apr 5th, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Clovis Pereira wrote: > Hi, > Sometimes, I forgot to type the cont parameter using the ping command > on a > 3215 terminal

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-04 Thread Clovis Pereira
To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 04/03/2010 12:41 AM Subject: Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard? Sent by: Linux on 390 Port David Boyes wrote: >> I'm working on EBCDIC support for Perl 5. I'm not familiar with EBCDIC >> terminals, but apparently

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-03 Thread Don Williams
: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard? David Boyes wrote: >> I'm working on EBCDIC support for Perl 5. I'm not familiar with EBCDIC >> terminals, but apparently there are asynchronous ones. > > Very, VERY rare -- to the point of almost non-existent. The

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-02 Thread karl williamson
David Boyes wrote: I'm working on EBCDIC support for Perl 5. I'm not familiar with EBCDIC terminals, but apparently there are asynchronous ones. Very, VERY rare -- to the point of almost non-existent. The 3270 is the primary terminal type, and it's half-duplex, page-oriented. The older line-m

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-02 Thread David Boyes
On 4/2/10 1:58 PM, "karl williamson" wrote: > I don't understand the above. On ASCII terminals, often a control is > printed as '^ same time. It seems like you are saying that the terminal will send a > control character whenever a not or cent or maybe caret is typed > whenever followed by a le

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-01 Thread karl williamson
Richard Troth wrote: Perl was ported to OE more than a decade ago and saw use on OpenVM and on OpenMVS (USS). I am not a strong Perl follower, but would be shocked and saddened to learn that it was no longer viable on USS. (I know one guy who was doing some serious QA work with Perl on USS at o

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-04-01 Thread David Boyes
> I'm working on EBCDIC support for Perl 5. I'm not familiar with EBCDIC > terminals, but apparently there are asynchronous ones. Very, VERY rare -- to the point of almost non-existent. The 3270 is the primary terminal type, and it's half-duplex, page-oriented. The older line-mode terminal (the

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-03-31 Thread Richard Troth
Perl was ported to OE more than a decade ago and saw use on OpenVM and on OpenMVS (USS). I am not a strong Perl follower, but would be shocked and saddened to learn that it was no longer viable on USS. (I know one guy who was doing some serious QA work with Perl on USS at one point.) So ... sure

Re: How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-03-31 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 3/31/2010 at 02:34 PM, karl williamson wrote: > Also, in looking at the Perl 5 source code, it is clear to me that no > one is running modern Perl versions on EBCDIC platforms, because it > wouldn't work. But I can't imagine a Linux system without Perl. Could > someone explain? If you'r

How to enter control characters from an EBCDIC keyboard?

2010-03-31 Thread karl williamson
I'm working on EBCDIC support for Perl 5. I'm not familiar with EBCDIC terminals, but apparently there are asynchronous ones. I searched the archives but didn't find an answer to this. How can one enter a control character from such a terminal? On ASCII terminals, pressing the Ctrl key and ano