I've a naive question about the PL/1 F we
have onboard on MVS3.8j.
Forgive me, I'm trying to write code for
going from a single character to its EBCDIC
code and viceversa.
The first problem should be solved by this code
fragment:
ECODE:
PROCEDURE ( CHR ) RETURNS(FIXED BIN(15));
DCL CHR CHARACTER(1);
DCL CODE FIXED BIN(15);
CODE = UNSPEC ( CHR );
RETURN ( CODE );
END ECODE;
which seems to work correctly.
But I can't see a way for going back from the EBCDIC
code to a single character string, using only PL/1 F.
For what I can understand in modern PL/1 compilers
there are specific builtin functions implemented, but,
reading the original IBM manuals, I can't see any simple
way to solve the problem.
Any advice?
Peppe.
