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- From: weather@netside.com (Russ Weathersby)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Question on C/370
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 04:59:52 GMT
- Organization: The Netside Network
- Message-ID: <4hoes8$34h@nntp.netside.com>
- References: <4he39r$sh0@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <jodellDnvIns.tE@netcom.com> <4hm419$je2@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>
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- In <4hm419$je2@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Arn Trembley <arnold.trembley@worldnet.att.net> writes:
- >jodell@netcom.com (Jake Odell) wrote:
- >>Arn Trembley (arnold.trembley@worldnet.att.net) posted:
- >># Does anyone know how to generate the square brackets "[" "]" used for
- >># array references on an IBM 3270 terminal for the mainframe C/370
- >># compiler?
- >>
- >>In SAS C, you would use (||) for the [] characters, ie:
- >>
- >> array[index] <- would be -> array(|index|)
- >>--
- >>jake@pantheon.us.com jodell@netcom.com
- >
- >Thanks for the reply.
- >
- >I am using OS/2 Communications Manager for Warp as my 3270 terminal
- >emulator. I can generate any hex character in a TSO/ISPF edit session,
- >but they display back as blanks. We have the C/370 manuals on IBM
- >Bookmanager, but I haven't found the alternate characters there.
- >
- >I'm sure I could get around this by using pointers rather that array
- >references, but it would be more convenient if the 3270 interface
- >supported the characters!
- >
- >
- Using CM/2, I remapped the '[' character so that it displays the
- '[' character, oddly enough. If that doesn't work, use the Ansi C
- trigraph sequences: '??(' for '[' and '??)' for ']'.
-
- R.Weathersby
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