The issues in terms of MVS are:

Within the MVS environment, there are "sort-of" 2 sub-environments: "pure"
MVS and USS.
USS is fully integrated UNIX environment within MVS. "Pure" MVS is the
standard non-UNIX environment.
C or C++ is supported in both cases but my company or I do not have a C
compiler for MVS (we do not use that language on the mainframe) - we use
JAVA and other languages.
I may be able to get a free "C" compiler for MVS; but I am not sure?
Additionally, MVS is EBCDIC-based but conversion to ASCII is relatively
easy.

I have written a mainframe-based REXX program that uses IP sockets to pull
web site data but it is very limited compared to CURL and the problem that I
am facing right now is that I need to access web-sites via
HTTPS/certificates and it would take too long to develop (which brought me
to CURL).

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:05 AM
To: libcurl Mailing list
Cc: Kaplan, Jeff
Subject: Re: CURL S/390

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kaplan, Jeff wrote:

> I desperately need a port of CURL to the S/390 (MVS) platform.
>
> I saw some posts about work being done on this, but I cannot find any
> downloads or other information.

I'm totally lost when it comes to MVS and what kind of requirements it puts
on software and/or its source code.

I'm not aware of anyone having ported curl to MVS ever before. Perhaps we
could help you get it working or is it out of the question?

--
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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