>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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html