On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 09:18:01 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I would *think* -- perhaps I am being naïve -- that one could come up with an >automated fix for that that would do a 90% job, and then fix the last 10% >manually. > >How many lines of source is it (approximately) and in a few words what was the >mistranslation error? The usual stuff with braces, brackets and such? > >-----Original Message----- >Fromf Joe Monk >Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 4:13 AM > >Theres a big problem with the stanford distribution that makes it unusable. > >Basically, when they did the ASCII<>EBCDIC translation, some characters got >mistranslated. So, it will not assemble. > "they"?
What CCSIDs did they presume? What should it have been? Iconv is your friend. Translate back with CCSIDs to undo what they did, then re-translate with the correct pair. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
