The OMVS 3270 shell always struck me as having been written by somebody who didn't understand either the 3270 or VTAM.
As to vi, can I easily script it with REXX, or at least Perl? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of David Crayford [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 5:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strange python announcement On 2020-03-30 3:30 AM, Charles Mills wrote: >> Would it feel much different to practice Python via ssh on z/OS with data in >> zFS than on >> Linux with data in ext4 fs? > Slower, costlier and a UI that does not take advantage of cursor movement, > highlighting and control characters; otherwise about the same. Are you using the 3270 OMVS UI for shell access? If so, don't do that! On Windows use a terminal emulator like PuTTY which is full duplex and responds to cursor movement. Also, use Rockets bash port and not /bin/sh for interactive shells. I use Vim as the editor on headless systems and it's great once you've learned enough to get you going. It's a learning curve that's worth the effort. Rocket has a port of Vim which supports full colorization if you setup the terminfo database. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
