Thank you Andrew
I guess that the best place would be under where the blurb about windows is located as you have suggested.Note that the one of the locations I am giving below was changed since it was posted in the documentation and I planned to tel Philip as well.
Here is the blurb I was thinking about:
[PCRE was ported into classic z/OS and is maintained there on regular basis. Classic z/OS is different than Unix/Linux and Windows in that it does not have hierarchical file system, but the main difference is that the native character set is EBCDIC and not ASCII.Currently, only PCRE1 is available. Work on PCRE2 to be started soon
You may download the PCRE from
WWW.CBTTAPE.ORG, file 882. Everything, source and executable, in EBCDIC and native z/OS file formats and this is the recommended download site. A second location is the porter's website
WWW.ZAConsultants.net. There you would find also the ASCII image that is used for the initial load.
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] Ze'ev Atlas
From: Andrew Ho <andrew@???>
To: "pcre-dev@???" <pcre-dev@???>
Cc: Ze'ev Atlas <zatlas1@???>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] issues with EBCDIC and pcretest
Hello,
Actually, I'm webmaster@??? and am also on the dev list, precisely
so I see e-mails like this one. :)
Ze'ev, can you suggest a snippet of text/links (you can just pass a blob
of HTML if you prefer), and where you think it would go on
www.pcre.org
(I assume under the Windows ports in the "Contributed Ports" section)?
Humbly,
Andrew
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, ph10@??? wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
>
>> Everything appears to be working as advertised on the z/OS and EBCDIC.
>
> Hooray!
>
>> I will publish my distro in the next few days and send you ASCII
>> image of my test suite (EBCDIC version would be in the disto only).I
>> won't be offended if you won't publish the test suite and send any
>> interested party to my two mirrors.
>
> I think that z/OS is such a "speciality" OS (despite being "major,
> alive, maintained and evolving" :-) that it is better just to have
> pointers to your sites. They are already mentioned in the
> NON-AUTOTOOLS_BUILD file.
>
>> The only thing I would ask for is that the pcre.org would mention my
>> port as a contributed port if possible and direct interested parties
>> to the right place.
>
> I do not maintain the pcre.org site. Please email webmaster@??? and
> ask him to add something to the site.
>
> Philip
>
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