Re^2: C/370 is case insensitive, and just generally rots!

[P E Smee]

In article <1989Dec18.183306.12278 at ultra.com> ted at ultra.com (Ted Schroeder) writes:
>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?

Several possibilities.  Maybe your terminals are more up-to-date.  VM/IS
is a bit different with regard to terminal handling than VM/SP and 
derivatives, maybe that's it.  Or maybe your MAINT has rationalized the
various assorted translate tables so that everything on your machine talks
the same language.  (We looked at rationalizing the terminals with C, but
discovered that that breaks certain other packages, which DO agree with
our terminals, and which are more heavily used.  And for which we don't
have source.)  Or maybe you are using 8-bit comms.  (Note that AD and BD
both need that.)  Our terminal comms net is basically 7-bit ASCII, and
translations need done late (in the FEP).
-- 
Paul Smee, Univ of Bristol Comp Centre, Bristol BS8 1TW, Tel +44 272 303132
 Smee at bristol.ac.uk  :-)  (..!uunet!ukc!gdr.bath.ac.uk!exspes if you MUST)