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On 7/11/24 10:19 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
Glad you got it solved, but you have a lot of old-fashioned and
unnecessary code in there. Are you writing for a really old system?

Old-fashioned, I'll give you. After all, I do spend my Saturdays running (among other antiques) Linotype machines (were you aware that Ottmar Mergenthaler was using binary codes to sort matrices back into the magazine, in an era when a "digital computer" was a guy counting on his fingers?). And I not only *use* (albeit often in very unconventional ways), but *advocate for the use of* The RPG Cycle. And I still think IBM would have done better to just implement an ILE PL/I compiler, than to go to the expense of making RPG accept source that "looks kind of like PL/I."

But what's the "unnecessary" part? My iconv call is based very closely on Carsten Flensburg's example code from 2000. If there's a way to simplify it, I'm all ears.

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JHHL

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