OREXX in OS/2:
Sun 4-26-20 10:16:16Sun 4-26-20 10:16:16{1}[h:\] H:\$REXX\trynot.cmd
Trying \ 5C
\ recognized
Trying ¬ AA
¬ recognized
Trying ¼ AC
6 *-* compare = a ¼
6 *-* interpret 'compare = a' Not'= b'
REX0013E: Error 13 running H:\$REXX\TRYNOT.CMD line 6: Invalid character in
program
REX0219E: Error 13.1: Incorrect character in program "¼" ('AC'X)
Code pages 437 and 850 have ¬ at AA and ¼ at AC.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of
Joel C. Ewing [[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 10:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Friday OT, cheerful program for gloomy times
On 4/25/20 3:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> I did not copy-and-paste; I downloaded the attachment,
> which appears to be UTF-8.
>
> For Regina, Regina.pdf says: 3.1.1.1 Negators
> ... Regina supports the following characters as negators:
> ...
> ¬ Logical Not
> Copy-and-paste from the pdf gives me:
> 931 $ printf ¬ | od -tx1
> 0000000 c2 ac
> ... the UTF-8 "¬". But when I paste it into an EXEC, Regina says:
> say 2+2 ¬= 4
> Error 13 running "/Users/paulgilm/bin/rxx", line 2: Invalid character in
> program
> Error 13.1: Invalid character in program "('c2'X)"
>
> I much prefer when the examples in the Ref. actually work. Does
> ooRexx accept UTF-8 "¬"?
>
> I went on and did something fancy. Attached.
On Linux oorexx accepts UTF-8 "¬" , but can't speak for oorexx in M$
environment; and also seems to work for all in Seymour's nots list (Nots
= '\' 'aa'x 'ac'x), but am at a loss to remember context for using
'aa'x as a logical not -- displays as "feminine ordinal indicator" "ª"
in gedit on Linux.
Joel C. Ewing
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