RE: QShell GOTCHA

Or drop down into the file system and use VI (yuk) or load up VIM, (almost
as yucky)

OR even better use Orion. Do it all the time.


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Jim Oberholtzer
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2017 1:44 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: QShell GOTCHA

Actually most of my LPARs do not have SEU, PDM, etc. It's a change control
issue. If I'm just desperate that's when I use EDTF. But mostly I use RDi,
and I do much more admin than development lately.


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From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/01/2017 02:38 PM
Subject: Re: QShell GOTCHA
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



FYI even the ancient, depreciated, yet ever present SEU has the ability
to let you change the default case to lower. :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 12/1/2017 2:34 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

On 12/1/17, 11:01 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Unix convention. Case matters. Not that I think it was a good idea.

It gets weirder.

On my Mac (remember, Mac OS X is a fork of BSD), "echo" and "ECHO" both
work like QShell "ECHO"; i.e., they don't resolve escapes (or at least,
they don't resolve an "\r" escape). "echo" has a man entry, but "ECHO"
does not.

On our Debian box, "echo" works like QShell "ECHO," and "ECHO" doesn't
work at all.

Clearly somebody thought it was a good idea to have an "echo" that
resolves escapes, and an "ECHO" that doesn't, in QShell. Not quite sure
why, beyond sheer perversity and/or "cussedness."

I'm also a bit irritated that, given that keyboards lacking a caps lock
key have become quite rare, SEU still defaults to uppercase-only for OPM

CL. That was probably a contributing factor in my having been caught by
this "gotcha."

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JHHL