Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 02:18 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (13 Feb 2004 03:35 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 05:59 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (13 Feb 2004 06:36 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 08:00 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Robby Findler (13 Feb 2004 15:01 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 17:16 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 18:19 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Robby Findler (16 Feb 2004 01:03 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (16 Feb 2004 03:21 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (16 Feb 2004 04:18 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Robby Findler (16 Feb 2004 04:33 UTC)
Re: Encodings. bear (13 Feb 2004 17:40 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Per Bothner (13 Feb 2004 18:34 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 19:02 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (13 Feb 2004 19:05 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 19:48 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Per Bothner (13 Feb 2004 19:11 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 19:44 UTC)
Re: Encodings. bear (13 Feb 2004 21:42 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (13 Feb 2004 21:54 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 23:45 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (14 Feb 2004 00:04 UTC)
Re: Encodings. bear (14 Feb 2004 01:06 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (14 Feb 2004 01:08 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (14 Feb 2004 02:35 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (14 Feb 2004 03:00 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (14 Feb 2004 03:04 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (14 Feb 2004 03:08 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (14 Feb 2004 03:29 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (14 Feb 2004 02:19 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (14 Feb 2004 03:04 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (14 Feb 2004 03:10 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (14 Feb 2004 03:12 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 22:41 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (13 Feb 2004 17:55 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Paul Schlie (13 Feb 2004 18:42 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye (13 Feb 2004 18:53 UTC)
Re: Encodings. Ken Dickey (13 Feb 2004 21:53 UTC)
RESET [was Re: Encodings] Ken Dickey (14 Feb 2004 16:19 UTC)
Re: RESET [was Re: Encodings] bear (14 Feb 2004 18:02 UTC)
Re: RESET [was Re: Encodings] Bradd W. Szonye (14 Feb 2004 19:38 UTC)

Re: Encodings. Bradd W. Szonye 14 Feb 2004 03:08 UTC

Paul Schlie wrote:
> Please take a look at their typical api's for data interface &
> storage, you may change your mind.

I am already quite familiar with the API for record-based text I/O on
mainframe systems. You don't need to do anything special, just read and
write. Cobol and C compilers do that just fine in that environment, but
only because they abandon the "text is a filtered byte stream"
abstraction that is totally inappropriate for those systems.

This is an *old* issue, and the solutions are well-known. Your zeal for
imposing an abstraction upon systems where it doesn't make sense is
impressive but misguided.
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Bradd W. Szonye
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