Sven Barth wrote:
Am 21.03.2012 14:44, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
But the bottom line is that the target audience is IBM mainframe
hackers, used to handcrafting assembler and punching EBCDIC with their
teeth. I don't want them to say "Binaries bigger than 1Mb? NBG".
Maybe it would be better to show non-GUI executables? Those are normally
much smaller. Also these might be more useful on a mainframe?
The couple of things I'm looking at are both GUI-oriented. The first
looks at a .aws file which is an image of a mainframe tape, logs the
start of each record, and then allows each to be (decoded from EBCDIC
and) displayed. As far as I can tell, nobody's done this for anything
other than Windows. The second is a telnet terminal for IBM's APL\1130,
which can otherwise only be used by a horrible hack.
So while neither has any pretension to actually run on a mainframe, I'm
still fairly sensitive to criticism if any of the "old school" starts
grumbling that they're a couple of orders of magnitude larger than they
need to be.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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