RE: SEU editor...

["Shaw, David" <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon,

Gee, I'm surprised they never ported the PL/MI front end to OS/2 (not that
that would have helped anyone much - grin).

I understand SEU has some real interesting screen handling routines -
user-defined data stream stuff that's REALLY old and ugly.  Somehow I think
that if folks really want an open-source editor to run on the /400, they'd
be better off coding it from scratch than trying to figure out the old
monster.  Me, I'll just keep using CODE, thank you very much.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon.Paris@hal.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@hal.it]
> 
>  >> if they're not going to maintain it, why not just release 
> the source
> code to the user community and let us roll our own.
> 
> No one said anything about them not maintaining it.  They 
> have said they
> won't _enhance_ it.  Not the same thing.
> 
> Why won't they go "open source" ? Because it is written in PL/MI and I
> doubt if you have a mainframe connected to your AS/400 to perform the
> initial compilation - even if IBM would give you the compiler,
> documentation, macros, etc.  The old products were compiled 
> on a mainframe
> to produce the intermediate code (MI) which was then 
> compiloed on the 400.
> 
> 
> 
> Things may have changed but I doubt that there is a native 
> PL/MI compiler
> on the 400 - at best (?) it would be on an RS/6000
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