Re: Re: learning PL/1 --

Tony Harminc <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:15:32 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.turnkey-mvs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 26 August 2010 05:55, cedarlakebuzzards <cedarlakebuzzards-/[email protected]> wrote:

> If your 3270 emulator supports it, you have to remap a couple of keys
> for the 'not' and the 'bar' for concatenation and logical or.   You also
> need the code page with the PL/I special characters.  For Hercules, the
> config line is:
>
> CODEPAGE 819/1047  # for PL/I special characters

It also depends on whether the translation table is faithful, or is
one of those "helpful" ones that mismap one or more characters. It is
common for such tables to interchange the ¬ and ^ codepoints, and
often enough also the ¦ and | bars, all to match someone's notion of
convenience.

Tony H.