Re reads post, I kept thinking it was PL/M rather than PL/I.
Downoads manual. Does the DECIMAL data type work?
Notice how decimal was dropped in RISC and newer machines,
but now the latest floating point standards want decimal data back.
I suspect only implimented on special order CPU’s.
I never used it but I like the idea that it has real strings, none
of this if(strcmp(foo,“cat”)==0) like in C.
Where can you find all the older bits, to compile and run pl/i for dos?
Ben.
One of the best sites is:
WinWorld: Welcome You can find lots of MsDos software there
This is the best link for the PLI compiler. I forgot who gave me this but it is excellent!!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJs3HoO8aRVRVowRWlQNzVVcjA/edit?resourcekey=0-KqBcYBzmyS0c9iw1mE4QjA
Ik has all kinds of problems solved and also several linkers and librarians
A numberof manuals can be found here : https://www.pcjs.org/
and here : Tim Olmstead Memorial CP/M Library
and here : Index of /pdf/digitalResearch/pl1
And google can help you further 