>About 10 years ago I have up on using Logical Not in favor of != or <>.

>Not only do those characters work in any code page, they always survive

>EBCDIC-ASCII translation (e.g. with FTP), and cut-n-paste always gives 
>the correct result.

Nope! The exclamation point is at different code points in different
code pages. It's at X'5A' in CP037/CP1140, CP1047 (and more) but is at 
X'4F' in CP500/CP1148 and CP273/CP1141.

-- 
Peter Hunkeler
Credit Suisse

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