LOL, good luck, you’re gonna need it.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, October 23, 2025, 2:25 PM, Paul Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:31:05 +0200, René Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Paul, > >> On 23 Oct 2025, at 10:44, Paul Edwards >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Or alternatively, you could stop beating about the bush and simply >> run an EBCDIC version of Windows. > >I love this. Thanks for making my day a bit brighter. No worries. I've now had a chance to inspect the details of the x64 C compiler I have available. It's generated C code (transpiled, actually), so not easy to read. But not impossible either. I've managed to find two ASCII hardcodings so far. Feel free to join in the ASCII whack-a-mole. Other people do crossword puzzles and then throw the book in the bin when they are finished. I get to see a result. It may end up getting thrown in the bin too though, as this code is expected to be replaced in due course. But until then - what is it capable of? With this change: https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/f57a3bcad866a35d2d406fef3ba3fcecce996865/ I am now able to do "mcc -help", or the equivalent thereof. To reproduce, get the source code from sourceforge and: cd pdos/mcc pdmake targ=winx64e -f makefile.std (read the makefile for the dependency - already documented) ./bios.exe pdos fba1b1.vhd :mcc.exe -help exit [enter] Don't forget the ":" in front of mcc.exe to make it look "one level up", which takes you to the host system instead of looking on the fba1b1.vhd Also I documented pdos.exe in the command above in the readme.txt, but the ".exe" is optional. EBCDIC x64 - coming alive! BFN. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
