On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 12:37 Mark A. Stevens via <marXtevens=[email protected]> wrote:
What is the equivalent for & since BREXX doesn't like that? This drives me nuts, since I expect this to work. By-the-bye, the & works on VM/SP 5 at SDF.org.
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Ready; T=0.13/0.22 21:17:13 GRAPHDEM ? ? 52 *-* ?= 'ATTRY1' & attry1 ?= ' ' Error 13 running GRAPH1, line 52: Invalid character in program
Without having checked, I'll guess it's the not-sign character that's the problem.? You can replace "?="?with "<>". ?
The Rexx language got its start in an EBCDIC environment.? Every ?implementation written by anyone except Mike Cowlishaw got its start in an ASCII environment, where there is no?not-sign character.? Dealing with that has been a compatibility issue ever since.
