>It's quite a bit of work. And if you want to call LE code you need >assembler bridging stubs to pass control from REXX to your LE program. >If there's no money in it you may want to rethink your project.
Thank you for the thorough comments. Yes, I've realized it early on by reading through the IBM documentation and even familiarize myself with things like PIPI and other aspects of Rexx interfaces. That's why the Rexx interface part of my project has been pushed to the lowest priority, unless somebody who really knows what he/she is doing volunteers for the fun and 'fame' of being part of an open source project. The Posix and GREP issues are mow resolved and I am planning to publish the next revision soon. This is my current road-map: Roadmap (by order of priority) * PL/I abends on S0C4 and I do not have the expertise to check why (volunteers needed.) * Running through all the existing test suite and creating an EBCDIC specific test suite and reference results (volunteers needed.) * Produce a more complete and better written documentation (I am doing my best.) * Porting of related packages (such as PCRS and/or PCRE-subst). * Compiling and testing under most important EBCDIC codepages (in numerical order (I do not have access to such installations - volunteers needed:) 1. IBM1047 - most common in the United States 2. IBM1026 - Turkish 3. IBM1140 – old code page 037 4. IBM1148 - CP500 5. IBM285 – UK 6. IBM424 - Hebrew 7. IBM875 - Greek * Adapt the C++ wrapper (if possible because of EBCDIC vs. UTF-8 issues) * Possible porting to USS anyway is a distant option. * Rexx interface ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
