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- From: zblp02@hou.amoco.com (Barry Puryear (SSS/VM))
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.144429.2188@hou.amoco.com>
- Sender: blpuryear@hou.amoco.com (Barry Puryear)
- Organization: Amoco
- References: <9208260321.AA05688@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:44:29 GMT
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- The question of "what is a blank" is deeper than the definition of REXX.
- Several years ago, I had the duty to port some Fortran source from a UNIX
- system to CMS. As it happened, the Fortran source was loaded with tab
- characters. The method we used to transfer those files did not convert
- the tabs to spaces, but to x'05', as I recall. Of course, those source
- files would not compile on the first try. I had to convert the tabs to
- the correct number of blanks via XEDIT and compile again.
-
- I think that the best way to resolve the "what does REXX call a blank"
- question is for CMS (and other environments that use EBCDIC) to start
- treating tab characters more reasonably, rather than updating language
- definitions and changing individual language processors.
-