michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote:

? It just means you must convert ascii to ebcdic in OS calls that require
strings. All these calls must be re-implemented anyway, so a generic routine
to do this conversion seems like the obvious path. I doubt this will be the
real bottleneck :-)

Would you like to bet on that? What if it also meant that all the sources had to be rendered unto EBCDIC, and digraphs defined for characters that don't exist such as ^[]

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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