On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:04:16 -0500, John McKown wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:52 AM Matt Hogstrom wrote:
>
>> You are correct about GPL. The concern is likely historical and not the
>> one that would be made today. There is some discussion at the OMP about
>
IIRC, IBM used to distribute Ported Tools. Is offloading then th Rocket meant
as a barrier against the "poison pill" character of GPL? This works best if
Rocket licenses no source code from IBM.
>> hosting the Rocket Ports as a no-registration download. Regardless, USS
>> needs a serious facelift to include tools and utilities commonly available
>> on other *nix variants like Linux and MacOS and Cygwin.
>>
>
>IMO, if IBM is really serious about z/OS UNIX being something other than a
>"POSIX compliant? Check!" portion of z/OS, they need to invest (pay) for a
>group to port and maintain all of the main GNU utilities that they don't
>have any real equivalent to. I will give them a pass on porting the GNU
>Compiler Collection (GCC) because that would negatively impact their own
>compiler products. They especially need to replace their inferior versions
>of: grep; sed; find; awk.
>
Vim? Recently with both MacOS and Linux I tried editing with Vim a file
containing:
Latin Кириллица Ελληνικά
Converting the line with "gU$" to upper case, I got:
LATIN КИРИЛЛИЦА ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΆ
Excellent! Could any editor on z/OS do as well? For that matter,
could any terminal emulator display all those characters? Perhaps
the much-vaunted PCOMM? Or Vista?
(It was so easy to copy and paste those lines into this message with MacOS!)
-- gil
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