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- From: milam@fohnix.metronet.com (Stan Milam)
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- Subject: Re: Question on C/370
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 15:29:23 -0600
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- Arn Trembley (arnold.trembley@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
- : Does anyone know how to generate the square brackets "[" "]" used for
- : array references on an IBM 3270 terminal for the mainframe C/370
- : compiler? Do you have to use a trigraph?
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- : The characters should exist in the EBCDIC character set, but I can't seem
- : to generate them on my terminal.
-
- : Thanks in advance.
-
- Why not consider trigraphs? They were designed for such purposes. For example
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- array[index] would be array??(index??) using trigraphs. And it is portable
- too.
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- Rgrds,
- Stan Milam
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