On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:01:32 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: > >- Yes, I'm clear on the difference between the restrictions imposed by PARM= >(one parm, 100 chars), TSO (a tendency to convert to U/C, and yes, I agree >with gil, over-compensating by converting to l/c when ASIS is specified is >just brain dead), ISPF (a tendency to convert to u/c), and C argv (only one >parm, possibly parsed into words). > Wouldn't it have been glorious if the original definition of 6-bit BCD had specified lower case alphabetics _instead_of_ upper case? FORTRAN (excuse me) fortran programs would have been written in lower case; data set names would be lower case; and jcl would be lower case (but programmers might need to surround 'Upper Case' characters with apostrophes lest they be flagged as invalid). There would be no tendency for tso to convert to upper case, and there would be no need for an ASIS option. Nor would there be any particular use for the ispf editor's having a CAPS ON/OFF setting.
Ah, well. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
