On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:23:31 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >Just to be pedantic, aren't ~all~ characters hex characters? > I think the only hex characters are 0-9 and A-F.
> ... That is, they can be expressed in hex. I suppose (but I'm not sure) that > "non-hex character" is intended to mean a character that can be expressed > directly, eg a space can be expressed as '40'x or as ' '. Whereas a tab > character in EBCDIC needs to show up as '05'x; there's no way to insert it > into my data with the <Tab> character. > It's easy if you use the right editor. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
