Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-15 Thread Ed Finnell
Yep, same here. We were just voting on case commonality in the keyboard universe. In a message dated 1/14/2014 8:19:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, jwgli...@gmail.com writes: Both operations of course use the same tab settings.

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-15 Thread Dale Miller
Some have asserted that tab characters should be removed from source. However, for makefiles, according to the GNU Make Manual (for version 3.80) You need to put a tab character at the beginning of every command line. This has always struck me as lunacy, but it's an example of the IT

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-15 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Dale Miller wrote: Some have asserted that tab characters should be removed from source. Good assertation. However, for makefiles, according to the GNU Make Manual (for version 3.80) You need to put a tab character at the beginning of every command line. Why? Better regular expression

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-15 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.netwrote: Some have asserted that tab characters should be removed from source. However, for makefiles, according to the GNU Make Manual (for version 3.80) You need to put a tab character at the beginning of every command line.

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:38:03 -0600, John McKown wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Dale Miller wrote: Some have asserted that tab characters should be removed from source. However, for makefiles, according to the GNU Make Manual (for version 3.80) You need to put a tab character at the

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-15 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Jan 15, 2014, at 7:38 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Not just GNU make, but z/OS UNIX make as well. I can proffer an possible reason. Remember from whence UNIX came. The original terminals were serial terminals connected via RS-232. The tab key, then as now, was close

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-14 Thread Timothy Sipples
I think we may have beaten this subject nearly to death, Charles, but I think I'd use Tab instead of tab. Check several keyboards to see what they say on the key labels. On this particular keyboard I'm using at this moment the Tab key is labeled tab (lowercase). But that's because it's an Apple

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-14 Thread Charles Mills
question - how display a tab character? I think we may have beaten this subject nearly to death, Charles, but I think I'd use Tab instead of tab. Check several keyboards to see what they say on the key labels. On this particular keyboard I'm using at this moment the Tab key is labeled tab

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-14 Thread Ed Finnell
Three HP's...tab -|,tab -|,Tab -|, ISPF has a good section on Hardware vs software tabs. I go back to the program drum cards for the 029's . Nice when coding column dependent languages like COBOL and Fortran. Or data entry for column dependent input. In a message dated

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-14 Thread Charles Mills
Oh-oh. Two votes for tab. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 5:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-14 Thread John Gilmore
Ed Finnell wrote: | Three HP's...tab -|,tab -|,Tab -| On the keyboards I use tabbing is either forward, to the right, or backward, to the left, depending upon the current status of the case modal; and the key is labelled Tab | — —| Both operations of course use the same tab settings. John

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-13 Thread Charles Mills
Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 12:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? Do you get 3270 extended attributes to play with -- notably reverse video -- when WTOing? If so, that'd be darn useful

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-13 Thread Charles Mills
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? On 2014-01-12, at 07:06, John Gilmore wrote: ... [HLASM advocacy redacted.] I also prefer to use 'µ', 'µµ', 'µµµ', or 'µµ...µ', one or more instances of the Greek minuscule, to display the positions

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In d91559ad-3ca0-4033-a2d6-a6c34ad4f...@comcast.net, on 01/10/2014 at 10:45 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said: Somewhere in the far reaches of my memory there was a ZAP to tso EDIT that worked eg:Label(tab char) br tabchar R15 Why a zap? What is TABSET, chopped liver? SCRIPT was

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of0fb78386.d971c375-on88257c5c.00788311-88257c5c.007a9...@sce.com, on 01/10/2014 at 02:19 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: To evaluate the existence of an EBCDIC tab character, let's take the total number of instances in which any member of this list has ever in their

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-13 Thread Ed Finnell
For those who don't remember AFP there was a DCF Translate x'05' x'15' to get tabbing on AFP printers. Hmm or was it the other way? Wish I'd kept the source. In a message dated 1/13/2014 6:46:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net writes: in their career had occasion

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Mills
I didn't read the question but the answer is ... g Output is the response to a z/OS console display command. Did Unicode support for WTO make into z/OS V2R1? Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: There's a tab symbol glyph at Unicode

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread John Gilmore
The IBM HLASM supports a builtin function called BYTE that permits an arbitrary character to be defined and introduced into assembled text. It is 'generic' so that, for example |nul setc BYTE(0) --nul character, x'00' |nul setc BYTE(x'00') --nul character are

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-01-12, at 07:06, John Gilmore wrote: ... [HLASM advocacy redacted.] I also prefer to use 'µ', 'µµ', 'µµµ', or 'µµ...µ', one or more instances of the Greek minuscule, to display the positions of such characters. It is widely available (for use in such constructs as µsec) but even

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 03f701cf0e3c$d1a371d0$74ea5570$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 11:47 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: MS Word would say FOO^tBAR. Have you reported the bug? That should be FOO^9BAR. Parm2=FOOtabBAR I'd go with that. Parm2=FOO^tBAR That would be flat wrong. -- Shmuel

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofe902f58f.ddd660b4-on88257c5c.006d8c43-88257c5c.006e4...@sce.com, on 01/10/2014 at 12:04 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set. What absence? HT is and always has been '05'X. VT is

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 043101cf0e4c$7944d050$6bce70f0$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 01:39 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Both my aging Yellow Card Yello? That's the new card. HT should be on the older green card as well. And, in fact, it is: thank you, bitsavers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 044601cf0e4d$b4be3a30$1e3aae90$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 01:48 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: It occurs to me that what may be meant is the absence of control-character-based formatting in mainframe usage. On UNIX and Windows systems, fields are often delimited by tabs Making the

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Timothy Sipples
Do you get 3270 extended attributes to play with -- notably reverse video -- when WTOing? If so, that'd be darn useful. Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail:

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-11 Thread Timothy Sipples
There's a tab symbol glyph at Unicode point U+21E5. It's a glyph consisting of a rightwards arrow to a bar. Many keyboards with a Tab key include this symbol as part of the key label. More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(symbol) I missed the first part of the question so

Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Mills
I have a started task that (among many other things) will display its own parameters, something like Parm1=WIDGET Parm2=FOOBAR At present all of the values it displays are printable characters. Due to an enhancement it is possible that one of the parameters will contain a horizontal tab

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Skip Robinson
Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 01/10/2014 11:48 AM Subject:Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU I have a started

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:04:48 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote: An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set. ??? Isn't 0x05 TAB in all EBCDIC code pages. My emulator (Vista3270) is pretty rich, but even if I could somehow type a tab character into

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 1/10/2014 1:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I use the broken-bracket convention, viz., nul, when I need to display a nul, x'00' in both ASCII and EBCDIC. We use this convention in our documentation when describing any keyboard key. Example: Type your password into the appropriate field and

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Mills
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set. My emulator (Vista3270) is pretty rich, but even if I could somehow type a tab character into an MVS file, what

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Mills
: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set. My emulator (Vista3270) is pretty rich, but even if I could somehow type a tab character into an MVS file, what would z/OS do with it? As to your

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2014-01-10 14:47, Charles Mills wrote: I have a started task that (among many other things) will display its own parameters, something like Parm1=WIDGET Parm2=FOOBAR At present all of the values it displays are printable characters. Due to an enhancement it is possible that one of the

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Skip Robinson
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set. My emulator (Vista3270) is pretty rich, but even if I could

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 1/10/2014 2:19 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: To evaluate the existence of an EBCDIC tab character, let's take the total number of instances in which any member of this list has ever in their career had occasion to code X'05'in a z/OS file for any functional purpose whatever. (For me, that's +0).

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Ken Brick
On 11/01/2014 09:19 AM, Skip Robinson wrote: To evaluate the existence of an EBCDIC tab character, let's take the total number of instances in which any member of this list has ever in their career had occasion to code X'05'in a z/OS file for any functional purpose whatever. (For me, that's +0).

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Tony Babonas
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 01/10/2014 01:49 PM Subject:Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set It occurs to me that what may be meant

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Most MVS or z/OS programs expect commas between parameters, or blanks. But if this is a z/Unix program, the tab probably would be expected. On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Gord Tomlin gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com wrote: On 2014-01-10 14:47, Charles Mills wrote: I have a started task that

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Mills
: Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? Most MVS or z/OS programs expect commas between parameters, or blanks. But if this is a z/Unix program, the tab probably would be expected. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:24:08 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 1/10/2014 1:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I use the broken-bracket convention, viz., nul, when I need to display a nul, x'00' in both ASCII and EBCDIC. We use this convention in our documentation when describing any keyboard key. Example:

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Mike Schwab
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? Most MVS or z/OS programs expect commas between parameters, or blanks. But if this is a z/Unix program, the tab probably

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Charles Mills
: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:24:08 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 1/10/2014 1:17 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I use the broken-bracket convention, viz., nul, when I need to display a nul, x'00' in both ASCII and EBCDIC. We use this convention in our

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 January 2014 20:09, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Passed parms? Is that like the cannibal who passed his friend in the woods? All the wines in this establishment have been personally passed by the proprietor. Tony H.

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Ed Gould
MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 01/10/2014 11:48 AM Subject:Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character? Sent by:IBM Mainframe

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:17 -0800 on 01/10/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab charac: Just to reiterate before this thread drifts away: Classic MVS, not z/UNIX, and this is not a delimiter in a parameter file, this is for a display (note the subject line). How do