steve smithers wrote:
It should be noted that using Linux/390 doesn't remove the '^' problem. IBM display unit (3270) keyboards, being EBCDIC devices, won't have the '^' on the keyboard so an alternative must be found. (I'm assuming that Linux uses 3270 devices, maybe I'm wrong)
Linux on S/390 uses SSH, any of the standard X-based desktops, VNC and so on. I see no reference to EBCDIC, unless it's buried in options to control encoding for (emulations of) classic IBM peripherals.
Finally, the suggestions about developing FreePascal/370 as an ASCII compiler seem somewhat pointless to me. Why would anyone want to use an ASCII compiler on an EBCDIC system? I accept fully that producing an EBCDIC version will present problems, but if this compiler is actually going to be used by anyone, these have to be overcome.
I repeat: IBM is now happily using ASCII on zSeries. That includes the CDSL system made available to developers http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/support/community.html
-- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
