> My favorite was a guy who "cut and pasted" data from an excel spreadsheet
> into a text field in a release, somehow managing to capture formatting
> from the >spreadsheet which converted (on an old mainframe) into a hex
> "bell" character during translation to an 830, totally bombing the whole
> system. That was a fun one!
The other kind of new "gotcha" I've run into just in the last couple of
years is people who use the "@" character as an ANSI control delimiter....
and then include email addresses in PER segments or in comments. That never
used to come up.
(But "***HOT RUSH***" has been with us forever it seems).
MCM
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