Hi folks: Does anybody have a procedure which checks whether a given string is correctly formed as a fully-qualified file name -- not whether a file by the...
... From your mention of "drive" earlier in the message I presume you're using Windoze. The Un*x "dd" program (whose arguments are eerily reminicent of JCL). ...
... John, A powerful text editor called UltraEdit can do this with one click of a menu item under "conversions". There is a free trial available at ...
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:31:41 -0500 (EST) ... Assembler language source ought to have nothing particularly difficult. ... Let's not descend into OS wars here. I...
Hi Phil, You wrote: ... Unfortunately, yes. I can't wait to get eCS up on this system. ... Thanks very much for this. ... Yes. I have this coded in case all...
Hi Gordon: ... Right; please see my reply to Phil. ... As I said to Phil, I did this, and it was picky. I hope that I got it right, but I'll have to see the...
A fairly legible version of the IBM "Green Card" is available (in PDF format) at http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/sa227209.pdf -- Ken VanEseltine In...
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:04:32 -0500 ... As someone who spent almost ten years of my life professionally writing and maintaining operating system software for a...
Jeez, I'll bet I still have one or two of my old original System/360 "Green Cards", but heaven only knows where it is... I haven't seen it in many years...!...
Hi Ken, ... <http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/sa227209.pdf> ... Thanks for this ! This puts a new lot of detail on EBCDIC, but due to the date of...
My best regards to all the list members! After changing my email address I wrongly tried to subscribe to the old list address (still mentioned in the Catspaw...
Glad you found your way back to us, Guido!! Next time someone from our group gets in touch with Mark, we ought to mention to him that he needs to fix that ...
... [...] ... Great stuff! It's like good, old tbl(1) for TeX :-) Thank you very much! BTW -- compiler.inc and newline.inc are good candidates for the online...
Hi Phil, You wrote: <quote> The Un*x "dd" program (whose arguments are eerily reminicent of JCL). For a Win32 port, see: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ The...
Dear Ray; You wrote: <quote> ..... A powerful text editor called UltraEdit can do this with one click of a menu item under "conversions" There is a free trial...
Hi Gordon, ... Right. The problem is _WHICH_ EBCDIC -- they only differ in a character or 2 or 3; and if such characters are present at all in my file,...
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:27:26 -0500 ... Well, one approach would be to do a "character set inventory" of the file, and simply see how many of each character...
- ... - ? ECS ? OK, I admit to being totally stumped ! + The only ECS I know is the ''Element Constuction Set'', which is part of the Apache / Jakarta suite....
eComStation is on operating system based on OS/2. See http://ecomstation.com/ for lots of more information. -- Ken VanEseltine In reply to message (partially...
Hi Mike: You wrote: ... OS/2 lives .... lives on as eComStation (=eCS). It's at v. 1.2 with a refresh and its rerelease now, with v. 2.0 waiting in the very...
- ... - Thanks, Ken! Very interesting! I know plenty of folks who are still running OS/2 and seem to be pleased with it. However, I didn't know that there...
- Yahoo_Mail seems to have acquired a new bug, which is related to whitespace. (I've written to them, but they seem to be clueless.) As an example, I carefully...
- ... - ... - ... - My thanks, to you, too, John, for this additional information! Years ago, I recall a money transfer application which ran on an OS/2 ...
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:41:37 -0700 (PDT) ... The problem with "calibrated" whitespace is that the way it looks on YOUR system (and your font choices) is ...
- ... - ... - True though not germane to the topic of the posting, namely: One-or-more blanks are keyed, which _they_reduce_ to one. BTW: Clearly, email should...
... I'm dodging the issue of specifically Yahoo's handing of e-mail. The sender of an e-mail message can compose it in a monospaced font, but can't control how...
... As is so often the case, part of the problem here is perhaps due to HTML-burdened E-mail. Text which is displayed as HTML -often- has multiple blanks...
... Which is, in fact, a common problem on Web pages, too! ... And that is IF the recipient even HAS a compatible word processing program. Someone who is...
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