Sorry, Jim, for the confusion. Let me try to fix that. - By default, the shell and utilities expect text to be encoded in code page IBM-1047 (CP1047 for short).
- Text entered/viewed in a TSO/ISPF session (this includes ISHELL and OEDIT) is encoded with the host code page setup in your 3270 emulator. CP037 in the US, CP285 in the UK, CP500 in Switzerland, and so on. So, if you enter C source code (i.e. text) in ISPF, the C-compiler (c89 shell utility) will report undefined characters. If you have the characters ok so that the compiler is happy, you might see strange characters when looking at the file in ISPF. Two choices: - You can change the "shell side" and tell it to work with the CP of your 3270 emulator, i.e. change the locale by setting environment variable LC_ALL. Having done so, the compiler now accepts the same encoding as you are using in your 3270 environment (ISPF). - You can change your emulator setting to CP1047. This way, the emulator will encode text so that the shell and utilities recognize it. HTH -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
