Re: learning PL/1 --

--- In [email protected], Tony Harminc <tharminc@...> wrote:
>
> On 26 August 2010 05:55, cedarlakebuzzards cedarlakebuzzards@...
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.
>

The "mismap" has been commonly accepted for years.  If there is some
better way to do it, please share it with everyone.  We are all anxious
to see it.