C/370 is case insensitive, and just generally rots!

[Keith Breinholt]

In article <1989Dec15.095803.416 at gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes at gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:

>Under VM/CMS it is also pretty nearly impossible to use any of the 'special'
>characters {}[]|, and conversion to trigraphs is pretty much required.
>(Problem is that while both XEDIT and C/370 have extended EBCDIC codes
>for these characters, they use different ones.)

The key in this scenario is to use a terminal or terminal emulator that sends
the right characters (i.e. 3270 emulation).  Once the right characters are sent
there is no problem with {}[]| and other 'special' characters.

Keith L. Breinholt
usiklb at vm.usi.utah.edu or
kbreinho at wildflower.utah.edu