1. I would be willing to bet that if Gerhard gave up on it then it was well
and truly hosed.
2. The web site mentions IEBCOPY unload. If they translated that to ASCII then
you're in for interesting times.
3. Stanford Wylbur doesn't have all the facilities of SuperWylbur.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: SuperWylbur Users
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 14:38, Farley, Peter x23353
<peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote:
>
> Do you know of a specific program or macro in the package that exhibits this
> failure? Or have a link to any public discussion of the issue that describes
> the mis-translations?
>
> I DL'd the tgz file directly from Stanford and browsed a few sources at
> random, but I didn't see any "weird" characters. One of the mail-related
> scripts I reviewed seemed to have legitimate square bracket pairs, so maybe
> it isn't that particular issue?
I did much the same, and noticed that in the listing files there seems
to have been some post processing done to (among other things)
generate text boxes For example, in
Mainframe\GS.MIL\MILTEN.SOURCE\MSVC there is a line starting with *box
which in the matching listing Assemblies\Milten\MIL#MSVC.txt generates
a box made mostly of X'FE' for the horizontal lines, 9F for the
vertical, and the four corners are BF, DC, BE, and BB. This is neither
ASCII nor EBCDIC in any dialect I recognize, but all the box
characters have been uniquely translated, so that may well also be
true for any unusual characters in the actual source lines.
I doubt that the long-standing claim that the Wylbur source is trashed
is completely invented, but things certainly *look* salvageable at
first glance.
Tony H.
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