Of possible interest for any OS/2 users here. See the post by an IBM employee https://www.quora.com/How-did-OS-2-compare-to-Windows -- Phil Burton Palo Alto, CA

I didn’t think it was possible, but I had to ask.

On 4/8/23 21:32, Phil Burton wrote: I don't have a clue how you'd go about this. Iron Spring PL/I on OS/2 can call OS/2 APIs. On Linux, Linux APIs at the SYSCALL level, unless you want to fiddle aroun

Is it even possible to call Windows APIs from IS PL/1 running on Linux? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/apiindex/windows-api-list Phil Burton

Phil: Look forward to look. Roger On 3/30/23 20:25, Phil Burton wrote:

Roger, I appreciate your offer. I will prepare a file for you to review, but I have to take care of some immediate items first. I will email the file directly to you. Phil Burton

Dave, Your approach sounds feasible and not limited to a 32767 string. I can imagine writing buffer into a string array, where the array index increments each time a new buffer is read in. But I'm sti

Roger, I appreciate your office, and normally I would jump at your offer, but my lawyer doesn’t want anyone else to see any of those 9000+ files. There is a lot of backstory about these 9000+ files th

Roger, My Pl/1 is also rusty at this point, but I’m finding that rereading manuals, it’s very quick easy to “re-learn” the parts of PL/1 that I used to know. But PL/1 being such an expansive language,

You have one good answer. The L format item will read a line delimited by either LF or CR/LF. The only problem is that the delimiters will be stripped. The sample program "readu" shows how to read the

Phil, I have some more comments after a couple of hours of reflection: In recommending use of record I/O, I assumed the worst case. In particular, you didn't assert that the input was line-oriented, n

Phil, I experimented with this years ago, and I have a test program -- but I've mostly forgotten the nuances that I learned. In any case, I just ran that program and it seems to work as I remember. Th

Phil: If you will send me one or two of the files you are working with, I will attempt to determine their internal structure. Roger House rhouse@... On 3/22/23 11:31, Phil Burton wrote:

Phil: If the lines are terminated by CR, NL, or CRNL, then your program should read the files a line at a time. My PL/1 is definitely rusty at this point, but there must be some kind of get_line funct

I am trying to extract just the ASCII text and TAB and CR/NL characters from approximately 9000 docs created with a long, long lost word processor, DOS or very early Windows. MS Word cannot import the

On 2/27/23 13:38, Phil Burton wrote: That's the link I sent. Unfortunately the source was never released.

If anyone on this list is willing to loan me a copy of the IBM PL/I Compiler for Windows I will try to get it to run here on my Windows 11 box. Many thanks. DJ --- Best Regards Dave Jones IBM z Champi

Thanks to the link to the Multics program. I was a grad student at MIT when there were two alternative computing environments: The IBM Mainframe system, including TSO and PL/C, the Cornell PL/1 compil

Peter, I am a “belts and suspenders” (or “belts and braces” for UK friends) kind of guy. For reference purposes do you have a copy of the PL/1 for Windows version. Phil Burton

Peter, I am a “belts and suspenders” (or “belts and braces” for UK friends) kind of guy. For reference purposes do you have a copy of the PL/1 for Windows version. Phil Burton