On Nov 20, 2012, at 08:30, Rick Troth wrote: > > Also, OpenVM sports an 'iconv' command. > > help oshell iconv > What about "man iconv"?
> Not clear from that doc if it handles the multibyte encodings, unless > that is implied by POSIX compliance. > On some other systems, "iconv -l" lists supported character sets. > It would be really nifty to have a Pipelines stage that wraps OpenVM > commands. So many of them are filters, and a lot of shell scripts > customers and users create are filters, that this would be *really* > handy. > Yup. Send stderr to secondary output if connected; primary if not. Perhaps allowing additional connectors to additional descriptors. Or an OpenVM utility that wraps Pipelines. Both seem naturals; I'm surprised they don't exist. NIH? Concurrency problems? (A purported OpenVM stage that buffered the OpenVM output and blasted it to its output connector as the CMS stage does would be a travesty.) The "address SYSCALL" facility in z/OS Rexx is magnificent. If similar exists for CMS Rexx, it should be easy to code such a wrapper. -- gil
