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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: Blanks, REXX, and portability...
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- References: <ANDERS.92Aug26105620@lise3.lise.unit.no>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:03:00 GMT
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- In article <ANDERS.92Aug26105620@lise3.lise.unit.no>,
- anders@lise3.lise.unit.no (Anders Christensen) writes:
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- >You ftp a file from Unix to CMS. You don't use binary mode, since the
- >ASCII code would be unreadable on a EBCDIC machine anyway. So you use
- >text mode, and your CMS machine translates the text to EBCDIC,
- >including translating the tabs to spaces. No problem.
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- Not so (at least with MVS). ASCII tabs are translated to EBCDIC tabs.
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- [comments on parsing the output of the "who" command]
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- As long as we're talking Unix, you can do
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- "who | expand"
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- as a portable (from one Unix to another, anyhow) workaround.
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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