[clug] An EBCDIC lex ?

[Paul]

On 14/08/2010 1:08 PM, Paul Matthews wrote:
> G'Day All,
>
> At work we a mainframe, not one of these new fancy mainframes with Linux running on it,
> but the old fashioned TSO, JCL and COBOL type of mainframes.
>
> Recently we gained access to a C compiler (and there was much rejoicing).
>
> Now was going to use lex/flex to help with a little domain specific language. So my
> cunning plan was to use flex on Linux (i686) to produce the C code. Then cut and paste it
> to the mainframe. However flex produces lots of tables and other assumptions, that only
> work on an ASCII platform.
>
> Has anyone seen a flex like tool that can be told to produce EBCDIC?
>
Doesn't your file transfer programs already convert from ASCII to EBCDIC ?