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Re: lynx-dev Autoconf patch for S/390 (EBCDIC)
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Re: lynx-dev Autoconf patch for S/390 (EBCDIC) |
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Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:27:57 -0700 (MST) |
In a recent note, Martin Kraemer said:
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:44:18 +0100
>
> Thanks for sending me a Cc and making me aware of the fact that there
> is an active EBCDIC development "out there".
>
And thanks for your kind reply in:
Linkname: Re: lynx-dev Autoconf patch for S/390 (EBCDIC)
URL: http://www.flora.org/lynx-dev/html/month1098/msg00893.html
Once again, I recommend:
Linkname: Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) Inc. -
S/390 ® OpenEdition--GNU Utilities
URL: http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/index.htm
Link that you currently have selected
Linkname: Autoconf 2.12
URL: http://www.mks.com/s390/gnu/download.htm#autoconf
> BTW: I tried to port lynx-2.8 to BS2000 some months ago. I got stuck
> in HTML.c (the rendering machine is ASCII specific). When outputting
> the raw HTML source, it worked already.
>
> Does the current version of Lynx-2.8 support EBCDIC (including
> rendering)? Or is a patch required? I'd *love* to to add another "strange"
> platform to the list of supported platforms ;-)
>
Well, give or take a 2000 line patch. But you sound like the adventurous
type. :-) See:
Linkname: Lynx for OS/390
URL: http://www.nyx.net/~pgilmart/lynx.os390.html
Link that you currently have selected
Linkname: lynx.patch.os390.zip
URL: http://www.nyx.net/~pgilmart/lynx.patch.os390.zip
To date, I suspect that I'm the entire EBCDIC Lynx developer and user
community. I'd be elated to see it doubled.
And David J. Fiander of MKS replied to a private message that he had
submitted his autoconf patches to GNU. They were rejected; apparently
Richard Stallman deems mainframes too far from the mainstream.
-- gil