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From: ted@ultra.com (Ted Schroeder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: C/370 is case insensitive, and just generally rots!
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.183306.12278@ultra.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 18:33:06 GMT
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c9h@psuecl.bitnet writes:
>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?

So what am I doing right?  I've been running VM/IS 5.1 on a 9370 for over
a year now (CMS 5) and I have NO problems whatsoever with braces, brackets,
or vertical bars.  I either enter data from a 3191 (3279 style 24 line
monochrome terminal) or from an ASCII connection on my Sun workstation.
I also am running VM/XA SP2 on a 4381 (CMS 5.5) and don't have any problems
there either (always entering data on the 3191).  The only minor inconvenience
is having to have a file that has the square bracket characters in it
(0xAD and 0xBD) so I can enter them from the 3191 (they go in fine from 
my Sun workstation).  How come I don't have to do any magic SET OUTPUT
or anything?

I regularly transfer data from my IBM to my Sun (via FTP) and recompile
the same code on the Sun and it works fine.  Transfer it back, recompile
on the IBM and it works fine.  Can everyone be a little more specific about
what sucks?  Because I'm obviously too naive of a user since I can't
get anything at all to break.

      Ted Schroeder                   ted@Ultra.com
      Ultra Network Technologies      ...!ames!ultra!ted
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Disclaimer:  I don't even believe what I say, why should my company?