On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:33:15 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

>The earliest typewriters lacked keys for "0"and "1".  Typists substituted "O" 
>and "l".

And American telephones use zero as an abbreviation or indicator for Operator.

>MacOS does not allow the entire printable subset of ISO8859-1 in
>filenames.  Comment?

That is certainly their privilege. I don't see why not. All OSes put 
restrictions on stuff: maximum file sizes, maximum supported real memory, etc. 
I suspect their subset is richer than what z/OS allows for cataloged data set 
names!

Charles

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