TIML
Experienced Member
Editors being one of my obsessions:
I dug out today my old copy of SPF/PC
This was/is a PC version of the IBM Mainframe editor environment SPF.
Here is the current site for it:
http://www.commandtechnology.com/main.asp?pg=home
ROSCOE (which I used on the IBM 3090 mainframe) is a very feature rich version of it.
Anyway I thought my SPF/PC disk was unreadable as I couldn't get it to read here, but i suddenly remembered, the drive has gone, so I took it to my daytime residence(!) and it installed fine!
The menus are beautiful and you feel very comfortable in a stable environment. I haven't felt that good (computerwise) in years!
The Hessling editor is a (free) version of it for Windows and Linux.
http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/
Some of the commercial versions might be worth getting. I thought it worth buying SPF/PC back in the 1980s! I loaded a 4MB file into it just now! It pages and works beautifuly and its very fast! The install fits on one 720k disk!!! It was written in assembler! Wow, eh?
UNI-SPF for Linux from here is a beautiful recreation
http://www.wrkgrp.com/Download.html
I downloaded it today to my Fedora box & it installed easily!
Its a good way to see how SPF editor looks and feels, I recommend it to MF experienced people, or the curious!
You can use any facilities, but files don't save until you pay them for a licence. I prefer free software myself, but its up to you.
Do you have any favorite mainframe editors?
Did/do you enjoy using Xedit/Roscoe/ISPF?
Are you as crazy as I am?!
.T.I.M
I dug out today my old copy of SPF/PC
This was/is a PC version of the IBM Mainframe editor environment SPF.
Here is the current site for it:
http://www.commandtechnology.com/main.asp?pg=home
ROSCOE (which I used on the IBM 3090 mainframe) is a very feature rich version of it.
Anyway I thought my SPF/PC disk was unreadable as I couldn't get it to read here, but i suddenly remembered, the drive has gone, so I took it to my daytime residence(!) and it installed fine!
The menus are beautiful and you feel very comfortable in a stable environment. I haven't felt that good (computerwise) in years!
The Hessling editor is a (free) version of it for Windows and Linux.
http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/
Some of the commercial versions might be worth getting. I thought it worth buying SPF/PC back in the 1980s! I loaded a 4MB file into it just now! It pages and works beautifuly and its very fast! The install fits on one 720k disk!!! It was written in assembler! Wow, eh?
UNI-SPF for Linux from here is a beautiful recreation
http://www.wrkgrp.com/Download.html
I downloaded it today to my Fedora box & it installed easily!
Its a good way to see how SPF editor looks and feels, I recommend it to MF experienced people, or the curious!
You can use any facilities, but files don't save until you pay them for a licence. I prefer free software myself, but its up to you.
Do you have any favorite mainframe editors?
Did/do you enjoy using Xedit/Roscoe/ISPF?
Are you as crazy as I am?!
.T.I.M