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From: c9h@psuecl.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C/370 is case insensitive, and just generally rots!
Message-ID: <72683@psuecl.bitnet>
Date: 16 Dec 89 00:15:14 GMT
References: <71894@psuecl.bitnet> <1290@quintus.UUCP>
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
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In article <1290@quintus.UUCP>, jbeard@quintus.UUCP (Jeff Beard) writes:
> We now see two flavors of IBM/C: the originals ala Whitesmiths
> which were programs 5713-AAG/H and the SAA compliant 5688-039/040.
>
> Precisely which are you flaming?

C/370 is IBM's latest incarnation of C for the system/370, and many of their
mainframes of course.  I'm using it on a 3090-600(S or E, I don't recall)
and a 4381.  It sucks.

About the special characters (namely braces and brackets):  CMS doesn't
appear to have much of a problem with them.  XEDIT will display brackets
if I use SET APL ON, and CMS 5.5 seems to handle the braces correctly with
a couple of SET OUTPUT commands, but CMS 5 (on the 4381) is giving me Hell
over it.  It would be *really* nice if I could use standard C notation.
Any suggestions?

BTW:  I suspect the manuals say something about this, but we have yet to
      receive them ...  (IBM, are you listening?  This is Penn State.
      Send the G** d***ed manuals!!)

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