On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 7:40 PM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> As I previously mentioned this port could be patched to support EBCDIC but 
> you will have a heavy lift patching the Flex lexer and Bison tables. Oh well, 
> that’s life dealing with the major suckage that is EBCDIC! Also, the 
> interpreter uses 'fopen(filename, “rb”)’ so can in theory can handle source 
> files in MVS data sets. Unfortunately, the
> parser expects line-ending characters so is not compatible with record 
> oriented files.
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You could create a patch for the most common EBCDIC code page
(US.-ENG), then modify and test for other code pages.
--
Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

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