On Sun, 28 Jul 2013 09:40:43 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:: > >>o Make the product comfortable to those accustomed to Perl. > >>o Make the product comfortable to those accustomed to MVS. > >In other contexts, I've referred to the options as horizontal and >vertical consistency. ... > And I wonder further, if I have autoconversion enabled, and I'm processing an ASCII (tagged) file with "sed" or "awk" and my purportedly portable script has "\nnn" octal escape sequences to match nondisplayable code points, will those match ASCII code points or EBCDIC code points?
I'm pessimistic. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
